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Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

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Appropriate Communal Open Spaces: Principle 6

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Principle 6 stresses that an appropriate proportion, number, organization and equitable distribution of Communal Open Spaces are essential for the sustainability of any settlement on the long-term, and should consider cultural, social and environmental asp ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

Ephemeral Architectures: The Resistance of Street Vendors

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world and its heart, the Historic Centre, is one of the oldest colonial cities on the American continent. The heritage making-process while preserves the old cities, such as historic centres, tends to promote ...

2022

Social Representations of Mexico City Historic Center: Heritage and Controversial Memories

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

In this paper, we present the results of a research project that deals with the controversial memories of historic urban landscapes that have been designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. We observe - through the study of social representations of Mex ...

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIV, INST PAEDAGOGIK & PSYCHOLOGIE2020

Collective Memory and Resistance: Visual explorations in the Historic Centre and Films of Mexico City

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Today, institutionalised discourses surrounding heritage have social and physical impacts, with the potential to lead to a break between inhabitants' collective memory of popular neighbourhoods, and their transforming territories. In this context, the acti ...

EPFL2019

Urban Scars: From invisible to visible – In Beijing and Mexico City

Yves Pedrazzini, Florence Graezer Bideau, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Memory is a process that works through the identification of social references within a spatial framework, without physical marks necessarily found in the tangible present. Nonetheless, these references subsist in representations from the past and continue ...

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Historic Urban Landscape

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Within the UNESCO Recommendation of 2011, the historic urban landscape is defined as: “The urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes, extending beyond the notion of “historic center” or “ensemb ...

2015

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