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alex.cingan
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eureka.gif posted on 7-1-2008 at 09:09 AM
Thesis about the La Paz’s urban growth


In November 2007 I went to BCS for a internship period at the Municipal Development Office of the Council of La Paz. I didn’t actually go many times to the office because of the inutile effort of going there but I could observe the situation from a privileged point of view.
I investigated the socioeconomic, political and environmental situation of the city from the perspective of an Italian student graduated in sociology and with a specialization in urban planning.
If you are interested in reading the research project or looking pictures representing some critical aspect of the urban area you can download it from

http://www.mastermapaus.it/Pages/Edizioni/Edizione05/edizion...
You need to direct the mouse at the bottom of the page and to click on “PROGETTO DI TESI: Alex Marini”

The thesis is written in Spanish and if you can’t read it you can at least have a look at the pictures (second part).

The thesis analyzes modalities and forms of La Paz’s urban growth and articulates a proposal for the public policies of next years. The methodology mainly approaches the outlines of the qualitative investigation (interviews, pictures, participating observation, descriptions, articles, maps, etc.) with occasional contributions from quantitative methods. The processes of understanding and interpretation of the reality are based on an inter and trans-disciplinarily approach. The work is not subjected to previous studies, but rather, it is fruit of a personal experience in the city for a four months period, among December 2007 and March 2008. The proposal and the conclusions of the thesis focus the attention on the necessity to attribute to the public institutions a more active role in the territorial policies in order to generate a sustainable development that produces collective benefits and guarantees private interests.
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[*] posted on 7-1-2008 at 03:19 PM


Alex, with your permissiion, I grabbed these paragraphs from your section on security on page 83:

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En México y en Baja California la percepción común es que la actividad criminal ha incrementado en la última década y que las fuerzas de seguridad pública no son inmunes de responsabilidad. La espiral “nos indica que entró ya irremisiblemente a un estado de guerra intestino que no hará sufrir infinitamente como sociedad”. Las autoridades son consideradas responsables: “… precipitación desesperada de las fuerzas de seguridad pública que en vez de proteger a la sociedad la están convirtiendo en la victima del miedo… Esta situación se está saliendo de control y rebasando todos los limites. Las corporaciones armadas actúan sin ninguna prudencia, sensibilidad o sentido de la oportunidad... La incuria, la corrupción y la irresponsabilidad de las autoridades que primero dejaron crecer esta monstruosidad y ahora no saben como combatirla”.137

En particular, en Los Cabos, el área turística al sur de La Paz, después de años de crecimiento urbano descontrolado sin excesivas repercusiones sobre la seguridad pública, en los últimos meses del 2007 se han puesto a la atención pública algunas señales de alarme. En particular, la revista Gringo Gazette, ha denunciado situaciones que podrían afectar no solo el mercado de bienes raíces sino la calidad de vida de toda la ciudad. En la revista se denunció, por ejemplo, la difusión en proporciones epidémicas de robos en domicilios, secuestros de persona y la colusión de la policía en forma similar de cómo ocurrió en Tijuana y Rosarito hace 4 años. En particular se reportó un caso donde los propietarios de una casa agarraron los ladrones y la policía
rechazó de intervenir.


It's too long for me to translate, but it translates very well on Bablefish.



[Edited on 7-1-2008 by fulano]
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