PPT-The Cities of Mesoamerica

The rise of Major Mesoamerican Objectives What societies emerged in Mesoamerica that took on proportions that warrant their designation as genuine urban centers What were some of the major communities that emerged during the Classic period from 500 BCE to approximately 500CE. David . Maré. Adjunct Professor, . Department of Economics, . Waikato University. Senior Fellow, . Motu. Economic and Public Policy Research Trust. NIDEA Launch Symposium. November 24. th. 2010. Concentration . Read more: . Top 50 Cities in the U.S. by Population and Rank — Infoplease.com. . http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html#ixzz24xSBbKy5. America’s Most Dangerous Cities. http://247wallst.com/2012/06/11/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-america-2/2. CITIES Action Statement Provisional copy Action Statement The Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance 28 August 2014 THE ROLE OF THE CITIES CLIMATE FINANCE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE Cities are at the ce Background and purpose of the day. Steve Fothergill. Alliance National Director. . “Cities drive economic growth”. . . “Cities drive economic growth”. . Lord Andrew Adonis. . Author of Labour’s review of local economic growth. What does Mesoamerica mean?. Meso. . = middle. America = North and South America. STOP AND JOT. What does Mesoamerica mean?. Where is Mesoamerica located?. Mesoamerica is the region that is now Mexico and Central America. . Going to Get . to 100% RE?. How are Cities Getting to 100% RE?. Have access to or convert to emissions-free sources. Electricity: Most often hydro. Thermal: Biogas DE (Copenhagen, London); electrification (Oslo, SF exploring). America’s Urban Origins. Cities played a different role in the 18. th. , 19. th. and 20. th. centuries. Technological change has been an important factor in determining the role and importance of cities across time. Meso = means middle. Refers to any cultures that lived in present-day Mexico & Central America. Olmec Civilization. One of the earliest Mesoamerican civilizations. Located near Gulf of Mexico. Knowledge of them comes from excavations of 2 main sites = San Lorenzo and La Venta . How did the history of . Meroë. and Axum reflect interaction with neighboring civilizations?. Both . Meroë. and Axum traded extensively with neighboring civilizations. . Both . Meroë. and Axum developed their own distinct writing scripts. . RESEARCHING AGE-FRIENDLY CITIES: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH ISSUES AND PRIORITIES CHRIS PHILLIPSON Sociology/MICRA The University of Manchester, UK AREAS FOR DISCUSSION Background to the ‘age-friendly’ approach Aachen Amberg Aschaffenburg Augsburg Bad Homburg vd Hhe Bargteheide Bautzen Berlin Bielefeld Bocholt Bochum Bonn Braunschweig Bremen Celle Cottbus Cuxhaven Darmstadt Dortmund Dresd For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining—or shadowy—counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place.   This book is about those cities. It’s neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It’s a magpie’s book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from cities real and imagined around the globe and throughout history. Thomas More’s allegorical island shares space with Soviet mega-planning Marco Polo links up with James Joyce’s meticulously imagined Dublin the medieval land of Cockaigne meets the hopeful future of Star Trek. With Darran Anderson as our guide, we find common themes and recurring dreams, tied to the seemingly ineluctable problems of our actual cities, of poverty and exclusion and waste and destruction. And that’s where Imaginary Cities becomes more than a mere—if ecstatically entertaining—intellectual exercise: for, as Anderson says, “If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined.” Every architect, philosopher, artist, writer, planner, or citizen who dreams up an imaginary city offers lessons for our real ones harnessing those flights of hopeful fancy can help us improve the streets where we live.   Though it shares DNA with books as disparate as Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities, there’s no other book quite like Imaginary Cities. After reading it, you’ll walk the streets of your city—real or imagined—with fresh eyes.   The Origin of the Health for All PrinciplesIn the seventies of the 20th Century, the political and economic conditions of theternational community were difficult. Against the backdrop of urbanisation -. is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending . from . central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, . number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.