Disputed heritage: preservation policies and contemporary urban valorisation in the Garden City of Lomas del Palomar, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

The spatial distribution of the social and seismic structural vulnerabilities in Zihuatanejo (ZIH), Guerrero, Mexico, was estimated. Social vulnerability was assessed considering twelve indicators, including parameters such as access to health services, education, housing, employment, and unfavorable family conditions. Seismic structural vulnerability was evaluated characterizing the structural features of local houses, assessing the type and age of construction, and the quality of building materials. Surveyed households were randomly selected from a statistically significant sample. Our findings indicate that in the western and eastern areas of ZIH the population has high and very high social vulnerability. The main factors that condition these levels of social vulnerability are low-income, female-headed families, and households with marginal access to information technology, such as internet and telephone. Although seismic ground amplification in ZIH is relatively low, the regions to the west and southwest of the city are zones where the impact of strong earthquakes to constructions may be greater than in other areas. In particular, the districts of Lázaro Cárdenas, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Emiliano Zapata, Las Mesas, Buenos Aires, Lomas del Quebrachal, and Lomas del Riscal would be affected. In general, houses vulnerable to the impact of earthquakes are in regions where the population is socially more vulnerable. More than 50% of the population and 30% of the houses have high and very high level of social and structural vulnerability, respectively. Our results provide information to the local and federal authorities to strengthen their civil protection and mitigation plans.

Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar is a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed by the German immigrant Dr Erich Zeyen in 1944. Zeyen based Ciudad Jardín on Ebenezer Howard's garden city ideals and designs, which had gained a strong influence in Germany at that time in architecture and urban planning. Like garden city communities elsewhere, Ciudad Jardín was intended to create an urban environment suffused in ample public and private green spaces. This little-known South American garden city-inspired neighbourhood offers a unique learning opportunity about the role of social and political forces in historic preservation and planning, and about the value of urban planning based on green infrastructure as revealed by a society with comparatively little environmental awareness or historic preservation values. The article is based on original research carried out by the author in Argentina.

Tender Machos: Masculine Contrasts in the Mexican Baseball League

The purpose of this paper is to show the results and conclusions with the use of methyl cellulose as an adhesive in the labeling of books. The experience was aimed to identify options to adhesive tape and stickers in the labeling of books, as well as to start the development of the Library’s preservation policies for re-shelving the Library´s general collection of the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecologicas (Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires) during 2009.

The Argentinian garden city of Lomas del Palomar was formerly, socially and spatially, a very specific neighbourhood in Argentina. It was designed by the German architect Zeyen and was built on a human scale with a self-contained community. Recently, it has been undergoing a material and inner transformation. Elements such as high fences, security cameras and multi-storey buildings that do not respect the original character of the place have had an impact on the residents’ attachment to the place of their home. Employing Setha Low’s theoretical approach of spatialized culture (2017), the aim of this paper is to show how the residents of Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar are attached to the place of their home and neighbourhood and how this attachment is reconceptualized through the current socio-spatial changes of the place. Based on ethnographic research, this paper seeks to explore how these changes affect the spatialized culture of a place through the residents’ everyday perception.

In this work, we present two new records of Lagostomus from the late Miocene of Argentina. A right mandible from the Huachipampa Formation (Loma del Camello, San Juan Province) is assigned to Lagostomus telenkechanum, previously recorded in the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (Chasicoan Stage/Age, late Miocene; Arroyo Chasicó, Buenos Aires Province). A skull fragment from the Cerro Azul Formation (Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, La Pampa Province) is referred to L. pretrichodactyla, previously recorded in several units assigned to the Huayquerian Stage/Age (late Miocene) in Catamarca and Mendoza provinces, and sediments of uncertain age in Buenos Aires Province. The presence of L. telenkechanum in the Huachipampa Formation supports a Chasicoan age for this unit, which corroborates previous hypotheses, and extends the area of distribution of this species. The presence of L. pretrichodactyla in the Cerro Azul Formation suggests a late Miocene age (probably Messinian) for this unit, at least at Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, supporting previous hypothesis. These new records allow recognizing the biostratigraphic value of Lagostomus to a higher geographic scale than previously considered.

Lilian Harrison was a pioneering South American swimmer who established new records for open water distance swimming, and time spent swimming, in December 1923, as she became the first person to swim across the Rio de la Plata, from Uruguay to Argentina. Until now, her achievements have been remembered and studied as a South American history, from Harrison’s birth in Quilmes to her training in Tigre, to the tumultuous reception she received when returning to Buenos Aires after her successful swim. In this article, we situate Harrison’s achievement within the historical context of her early life and education, which was spent in an idealistic and pioneering school in Letchworth Garden City, in England. We argue that Harrison’s English schooling was a vital ingredient in her 1923 success that was generally overlooked in the press reports. Using existing newspaper sources as well as privately-held family papers which we have been fortunate to consult, we look at Harrison’s education at school, in the pool and her family upbringing. The article concludes with some reflections on the nature of global sporting histories in the early twentieth century.