2.* Jornadas de Historia y Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

Reúne ensayos acerca de la problemática del crecimiento urbano, especialmente en América Latina. Explica el problema a la luz de una concepción que efectivamente vincule la dinámica de la población con el desarrollo económico y correlacione la estructura de las ciudades con las contradicciones de las clases sociales y las formas de dominación.

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

This work analyses the celebrations (programme planning, decoration, processions¿) done because of royal births, marriages or death, as well as those celebrations done because of ecclesiastic arrangements, such as canonisation or beatification.