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• W1990287993 abstract "This book, the most recent addition to the John Hopkins University Press’s distinguished “Creating the North American Landscape” series, is a product of the author’s longstanding interest in urbanism and architecture along the Mexican–U.S. borderlands, and the California–Mexico region in particular. The premise of the book is that a “new type of landscape” is developing along the Mexican–U.S. border: A “Mex-Am” transfrontier metropolis that ignores political boundaries and that is propelled by a combination of transnational and global forces. The author describes the urban and architectural traditions that emanate from each side of the border, but his main focus is on the potential blending of these landscape traditions at their “points of cultural contact” along the border itself. While the author envisions the development of an authentic border landscape that reflects both traditions, the powerful influence of the U.S. in Mexico and the preference for “nostalgic” versions of Hispano-Mediterranean architecture in the U.S. Southwest, makes assimilation problematic. Fearing that the adaptation of “commodified” landscapes from the United States are leading to a sense of “place-lessness” in Mexican border cities—the development of an “Anywhere Mexico/USA”— he also expresses the hope that U.S. cities might be made more “livable” by absorbing landscape traditions from south of the border.The book contains seven chapters, and begins with a description of the characteristic features of the transcultural city that result from the “collision” of the region’s two predominant landscape traditions: “Mexican memory” and North American “hightech”. Because the author situates the Mexican borderlands in a wedge between two powerful, opposing forces, the next three chapters describe the evolution of “regional landscape elements” in Central Mexico, northern Mexico, and the Southwest U.S. Moreover, a large-scale view showing how these landscape traditions play out on the border landscape itself is provided by case studies of Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California. In the ensuing chapter, the focus is on the processes of economic and cultural integration, with an emphasis on the negative impact of globalization and modernism on the tourist landscapes and public spaces of Tijuana. Because they are responsible for much of the formal architecture in the region, the author also includes an entire chapter of interviews with architects from Tijuana and San Diego. The final chapter consists of a summary and conclusion in which it is observed that, Mexican landscapes are increasingly “being eclipsed by global consumerism” (p. 207), while “the landscapes of the urban Southwestern United States have not resolved their connection to the Mexican past” (p. 212).From Aztec to High Tech is a very well-written book that provides a clear and concise argument for the existence of a new transborder landscape. Yet, although the author writes of a “gradual blending” of the two landscape traditions, it remains questionable whether-or-not a truly integrated borderlands landscape is possible when the economic and cultural influences of one is far greater than the other. Furthermore, while the author provides broad overviews of the historical and contemporary evolution of urbanism and architecture in Mexico and the Mexican–U.S. borderlands that make it accessible to the general reader, those already familiar with the urban landscapes of the region may grow impatient with these summaries of secondary material. Finally, the chapter of interviews would have been more informative if it had also included interviews with the developers responsible for many of the popular landscapes in the region. Otherwise, the interviews would have worked better blended into the body of the book. Despite these observations, due to its accessible writing style and broad review of the literature, this book would be an asset to any Mexican or Mexico–U.S. regional or urban geography course." @default.
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• W1990287993 title "From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border" @default.
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