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Arquitectura expuesta : exposiciones, interludios y ensayos = Exposed architecture : exhibitions, interludes and essays
'Exposed Architecture' offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America. It is published in collaboration with LIGA Space for Architecture in Mexico City. Founded in 2011, LIGA is an independent initiative for the promotion of contemporary architecture in Latin America by staging exhibitions and conferences and by publishing books on selected topics. The book's first part documents exhibitions created by twelve firms from Argentina, Brazil/Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and from Portugal at LIGA's exhibition space in Mexico in images and brief texts. In the second part, six Studio Interludes shed light at practice and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American architecture. The third part comprises short essays by Agnaldo Farias, Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Daniel Fernâandez Pascual, Florencia Rodriguez, Anna Puigjaner and Jorge Munguia, Rory Hyde, Tina Dicarlo, and Wonne Ickx, as well as two interviews with local protagonists. They look at key aspects and topics against a backdrop of manifold difficulties and challenges the region poses for the production and communication of architecture.
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Complex interpolation between Hilbert, Banach and operator spaces
Motivated by a question of Vincent Lafforgue, the author studies the Banach spaces X satisfying the following property: there is a function \\varepsilon\\to \\Delta_X(\\varepsilon) tending to zero with \\varepsilon0 such that every operator T\\colon \\ L_2\\to L_2 with \\|T\\|\\le \\varepsilon that is simultaneously contractive (i.e., of norm \\le 1) on L_1 and on L_\\infty must be of norm \\le \\Delta_X(\\varepsilon) on L_2(X). The author shows that \\Delta_X(\\varepsilon) \\in O(\\varepsilon^\\alpha) for some \\alpha0 if X is isomorphic to a quotient of a subspace of an ultraproduct of \\theta-Hilbertian spaces for some \\theta0 (see Corollary 6.7), where \\theta-Hilbertian is meant in a slightly more general sense than in the author's earlier paper (1979).
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Space-Time Analysis: Concepts, Quantitative Methods, and Future Directions
Throughout most of human history, events and phenomena of interest have been characterized using space and time as their major characteristic dimensions, in either absolute or relative conceptualizations. Space-time analysis seeks to understand when and where (and sometimes why) things occur. In the context of several of the most recent and substantial advances in individual movement data analysis (time geography in particular) and spatial panel data analysis, we focus on quantitative space-time analytics. Based on more than 700 articles (from 1949 to 2013) we obtained through a key word search on the Web of Knowledge and through the authors' personal archives, this article provides a synthetic overview about the quantitative methodology for space-time analysis. Particularly, we highlight space-time pattern revelation (e.g., various clustering metrics, path comparison indexes, space-time tests), space-time statistical models (e.g., survival analysis, latent trajectory models), and simulation methods (e.g., cellular automaton, agent-based models) as well as their empirical applications in multiple disciplines. This article systematically presents the strengths and weaknesses of a set of prevalent methods used for space-time analysis and points to the major challenges, new opportunities, and future directions of space-time analysis.
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Smart Spaces, Information Processing, and the Question of Intelligence
As spaces increasingly come to be described as \"smart,\" \"sentient,\" or \"thinking,\" scholars remain in disagreement as to the nature of intelligence, knowledge, or the \"human mind.\" This article opens the notion of intelligence to contestation, examining differing conceptions of intelligence and what they might mean for how geographers approach the theorization of \"smart\" spaces. Engaging debates on the distinction between cognition and consciousness, we argue for a view of intelligence as multiple, partial, and situated in and in-between spaces, bodies, objects, and technologies. This article calls on geographers to be attentive to the multiple forms of intelligence made possible by innovations in information processing and to the ways in which particular intelligences are prioritized-as others might be neglected or suppressed-through the production of smart spaces in the context of our rapidly changing understandings of the \"humanness\" of intelligence. Key Words: cognition, consciousness, digital technology, intelligence, space.
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Geographies of the Pluriverse: Decolonial Thinking and Ontological Conflict on Colombia's Pacific Coast
Recent debates in decolonial thinking have engaged the notion of the pluriverse to question the concept of universality at the heart of Western epistemology and hermeneutics that has historically underpinned processes of colonial domination and exploitation. The idea of the pluriverse calls for a coexistence of many worlds as an acknowledgment of the entanglements of diverse cosmologies. These entanglements are often of a conflictual nature, in that different ways of being in the world are intricately linked through the colonial matrix of power, leading to what has been termed ontological conflicts. Although much of this literature on decoloniality is highly sophisticated on a conceptual level, it often displays a dearth of ethnographic evidence, which would strengthen its theoretical claims. In this article I attend to this critique by first reviewing the principal arguments regarding the pluriverse and ontological conflicts to then offer an in-depth examination of what such a pluriverse might actually look like in particular places. For this I examine the world in the Pacific coast region of Colombia that is constituted through what I call the aquatic space-an assemblage of relations resulting from human entanglements with an aquatic environment characterized by intricate river networks, significant tidal ranges, and labyrinthine mangrove swamps. This aquatic space, I argue, has informed the political organization of Afro-Colombian communities in the region in a conflict with capitalist modernity, which, crucially, is not merely about land rights and resource extraction but an ontological conflict over ways of being in the world. I finish by suggesting that the pluriverse constitutes a third space, challenging our accustomed ways of thinking spatially and ontologically. Key Words: Afro-Colombia, aquatic space, coloniality of power, modernity, third space.
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Using Geonarratives to Explore the Diverse Temporalities of Therapeutic Landscapes: Perspectives from \Green\ and \Blue\ Settings
A growing evidence base highlights \"green\" and \"blue\" spaces as examples of \"therapeutic landscapes\" incorporated into people's lives to maintain a sense of well-being. A commonly overlooked dimension within this corpus of work concerns the dynamic nature of people's therapeutic place assemblages over time. This article provides these novel temporal perspectives, drawing on the findings of an innovative three-stage interpretive geonarrative study conducted in southwest England from May to November 2013, designed to explore the complex spatial-temporal ordering of people's lives. Activity maps produced using accelerometer and Global Positioning system (GPS) data were used to guide in-depth geonarrative interviews with thirty-three participants, followed by a subset of go-along interviews in therapeutic places deemed important by participants. Concepts of fleeting time, restorative time, and biographical time are used, alongside notions of individual agency, to examine participants' green and blue space experiences in the context of the temporal structures characterizing their everyday lives and the biographical experiences contributing to the perceived importance of such settings over time. In a culture that by and large prioritizes speed, dominated by social ideals of, for example, the productive worker and the good parent, participants conveyed a desire to shift from fleeting time to restorative time, seeking a balance between embodied stillness and therapeutic mobility. This was deemed particularly important during more stressful life transitions, such as parenthood, employment shifts, and the onset of illness or impairment, when participants worked hard to tailor their therapeutic geographies to shifting well-being needs and priorities.
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The Place of Space in Theories of Social Movements: the Analytical Proposal of Spaces of Contention
This article presents a theoretical review of the role that the spatial dimension has occupied in social movements theories (SMTs), focusing the analysis on the conceptual framework of spaces of contention. This notion emerges from the convergence between SMTs and political geography in the early 21st century, introduced by Tilly (2000, 2003), Sewell (2001), and Martin and Miller (2003). Through this conceptual articulation, space begins to be recognized not merely as the backdrop where political struggles unfold but also as one of their central objects. To achieve this objective, the article offers a brief exploration of the principal approaches through which SMTs have engaged with the spatial dimension, intending to enhance their explanatory power in analyzing the conditions that enable the emergence of social movements. Furthermore, this review introduces the concept of political contention to bridge the elements proposed by Tilly for a place-oriented analysis and the constitutive dimensions of spaces of contention. Resumen Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar una revisión teórica sobre el lugar que ha ocupado la dimensión espacial en las teorías de los movimientos sociales (TMS), centrando el análisis en la propuesta conceptual de los espacios de contienda. Dicha noción emerge de la confluencia entre las TMS y la geografía política a inicios del siglo XXI, y es introducida por Tilly (2000, 2003), Sewell (2001) y Martin y Miller (2003). A partir de esta articulación, el espacio comienza a ser reconocido no sólo como el escenario donde se desarrollan las luchas políticas, sino también como uno de sus objetos centrales. Para ello, se propone un breve recorrido por las principales aproximaciones que han hecho las TMS a la dimensión espacial, con el propósito de dotarla de un mayor poder explicativo en el análisis de las condiciones que posibilitan la emergencia de los movimientos sociales. Esta revisión permite, además, introducir el concepto de contienda política, a fin de establecer un puente entre los elementos que Tilly plantea para un análisis orientado al lugar y las dimensiones constitutivas de los espacios de contienda.
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The Timescape of Smart Cities
To date, critical examinations of smart cities have largely ignored their temporality. In this article, I consider smart cities from a spatiotemporal perspective, arguing that they produce a new timescape and constitute space-time machines. The first half of the article examines spatiotemporal relations and rhythms, exploring how smart cities are the products of and contribute to space-time compression, create new urban polyrhythms, alter the practices of scheduling, and change the pace and tempos of everyday activities. The second half of the article details how smart cities shape the nature of temporal modalities, considering how they reframe and utilize the relationship among the past, present, and future. The analysis draws from a set of forty-three interviews conducted in Dublin, Ireland, and highlights that much of the power of smart urbanism is derived from how it produces a new timescape, rather than simply reconfiguring spatial relations.
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