In 1941, T.S. Eliot acknowledged THE RIVER as a god, ‘unhonoured, unpropitiated by worshippers of the machine … the problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten by the dwellers in cities’. He mentioned this in the poem ‘The Dry … Continue reading ‘The Dry Salvages’ of T. S. Eliot and the Yaqui River Delta in Sonora, Mexico
Peter Droege, on his book Renewable City: ‘ A coal and oil combustion frenzy of epic proportions has powered urban growth for almost a century. this carries two immediate risks: the imminent peaking of the prime fuels feeding this infernal … Continue reading The Ecology of Petrol Stations
It is interesting to know the roots of the word Habitat. It is derived from the Latin word habeō, “to have, to possess”. A wider definition from biological sciences is: habitat, the place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including … Continue reading HABITAT: to possess
Derrida said: “there is nothing outside the text”. In human landscapes, there is nothing outside the boundaries. Human Territories are areas delineated by boundaries with the aim of limiting the rational space: exterior/interior, inside/outside. These limits could be man-made or nature-made. One example … Continue reading BOUNDARIES, take 2
I find questionable the anthropocentrism of the urban studies and the tendency to explain the human societies and urban development only as the result of discourses and social constructions. It is fundamental to consider that the flow of matter-energy through the biosphere of the Earth decides the environmental stability and turbulence of a specific soil. Natural phenomena and the consumption of food and raw materials are the pillars of every human settlement. Having said so, I don’t underestimate the relevance of the “ecological ideology” or in other words, the green political thought. When I refer to the word ideology, I understood … Continue reading When I grow up, I want to be a cactus
Two dwellers, a man in Sonora, a woman in Yucatán, the two edges of a country called México Continue reading Two dwellers separated by 1,839,979.52 miles (2,961,160 km)
México-USA border. One landscape called Sonoran Desert, two territories: Sonora, México and Arizona, USA Continue reading ONE LANDSCAPE, TWO TERRITORIES
Derrida said: “there is nothing outside the text”. In human landscapes, there is nothing outside the boundaries. Human Territories are delineated by boundaries, with the aim of limiting the rational space: exterior/interior. These limits are artificial in the example of the Mexico-USA border, where a fence on the Sonora Desert separates two national territories; or natural in the case of the Pacific Ocean marking the limit of Mazatlan, Mexico. I propose a third example with a third picture of the Rio Hondo: This river marks the division of two national states. On the right side: México; on the left side: Belize. A … Continue reading BOUNDARIES
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