Saturday, November 13, 2010

Home Remedies For Dog Impetigo

Granada "tuned" I dreamed

Alejandro Prieto

The other day while waiting for friends at the corner of Gran Via and Catholic Kings, I unintentionally got to see the difference between planning a both sides. Catholic Monarchs to the sidewalk looked like going down to the elegant design combined grids of white and gray, with margins parallel to the houses with their pots and lamps integrated into the architecture, creating a beautiful picture. Saw the smiling tourists enjoying the charm, personality and harmony surround that space. It's amazing how subtly turning head one discovers that the sidewalk becomes a uniform gray mass, looking grubby and dirty, dilapidated street lights and tacky, with its screens birrazas caught by one end, where the dirty water collects in the bottom corner. Observed as geraniums placed on the floor, mixed with cigarette butts and bags of potatoes, pray for not being trampled by the first clueless to not notice his presence. Without knowing that corner invited me to reflect on two very different forms of action. Of how you can make things right, with care and affection, with lofty goals and ambition, wanting to leave a beautiful legacy for posterity, and how they can do things fatal, reluctantly, without any criteria. Loaded with mediocre ideas and demonstrating absolute contempt for this city.

The sad thing about this case is that the city with the most tacky and vulgar tastes that Grenada has had many years thought to have the "divine" mission to transform the entire downtown. Now it's the turn of the Street Angel Ganivet and this club in planning expert has amply demonstrated that they can charge anything and then say we are very proud.

already turned the Constitution Avenue in the "Voulebard of filth", anyone who has been there have felt disgust when looking at the floor. And at night the feeling is much worse: The kitchen light the lamps with blue LEDs mixed land them look soulless.
also turned downtown streets into a uniform mass of gray and monotonous without personality, without grace, without any aesthetic nod. Would be over before pouring cement and let it dry, the effect would have been the same. Now they are pedestrian streets, yes, but far from the urban center that combines the appeal of the stores with the aesthetic attraction, the charm and magic that is the center of a city.
Walk With the Pump Room and more of the same, yet reform do not know if it was necessary, because they have contributed almost nothing but money to a few pockets, street lights or the occasional ramshackle stroke style "super-modern" which in reality are nothing but details of teen pimp, which only serve to kill again the magic of a place that was authentic, unique and that we do not know how to define it. The funny thing is that half of the ride suffers a kind of hemiplegia, because it is closed since the works were completed long ago. Another example of "clarity" over City Hall: We do things and then not know what use him.

So, little by little, neighborhood by neighborhood, Granada has suffered in recent years a wave of destruction of historic streets and spaces that are not known since the 60's, when some of the parents of those who now rule were devoted to speculate and build cement Mazacote unblinking ravaging the magic and charm of this city.
I think it is high time that Granada speak loud and clear, we demonstrate that we are not worth all that we love this city and that we refuse to continue to be "tuned" by ignorant barbarians are far more than Granada deserve.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Elimination Period Dental Benefits

Granada ...

Alejandro Prieto

lying on the lawn of a park in Florence, I see the huge fountain full of life and freshness that stands majestically in front of me. Surrounding it is a huge lake where the kids throw bread crumbs to the ducks. The shadow of a huge ash tree shelters me from the sun and everything around me is peace and beauty. Near me, a family enjoys sitting on the grass, past a girl reading a book with his bicycle. Environment eyes and imagine that the trees above you can see the silhouette of Albaicin and Sierra Nevada in the background. In my delirium I guess in the future and the Millennium Park in the grounds of the Renfe has come true. I let go of the idea and I imagine that Grenada has achieved his dream of a large park in the heart of the city. The buildings are now covered by big trees that cast shadows and coolness about people lying relaxed on the grass. Only listen to the birds, the laughter of children and a bike horn away.
futuristic In my dream I wonder what happened to this wonder has become a reality. Know the reasons but I suppose at some point politicians realized the great opportunity before them and decided to join forces and forget your fears to realize the grand design of Granada in the last 100 years. I wonder if I am too only dared to think, but I feel optimita and eager to continue to dream: In my utopia, Granada has become a sophisticated European city where everyone moves by bike and parks flourish in every corner. My dry and gray city has become a real garden. The surrounding hills have been reforested and now looks green and beautiful. The seats are not only the roof of the car parks are now full of life and students are scattered over your lawn (I think I even need to get drunk because the reality is more beautiful than any invented).

It's late and I have to take the plane to return to Spain but I get again to see this picture perfect absorbing the last rays of light. The reality is ruthless but still resounds in my head the sound of the birds and my heart does not waive never dreams. At the end of the day, La Alhambra also was once just an idea in mind of a dreamer.

Alejandro Prieto, published in Journal

Friday, May 7, 2010

Consumer Reports On Pool Heaters

Granada, park and

Manuel Sánchez Aguado

late arrival of the AVE ed a city paid to the discrepancy, such as Grenada, could not be without controversy. Everyone knows that many conditions imposed combine an easy task: To seek the maximum release of space to allow more green. Intermodality advantage couple to facilitate user comfort: Maximizing the profitability of any public transport closer to the sources of customers (hospitals, universities.,) Find the proximity to downtown to choose just one line Station meter and locate the best sites for jaw-dropping all will not be easy. Not forgetting, of course, that the toll does not end up ruining the urban planning because the payments in kind (In blocks of flats) to conceal the actual picture.

Finally Moneo has decided on a project that view prevails and the "autolucimiento", a scenic city at the expense of green spaces in a city without them. What genius forego these free images included in the station? The project presented a very high makes first contact with the city and separates us from the virtual park proposed by the Greens, which possibly would not have happened if Moneo was Granada. If "granaino" would not have ignored this Space is the only real possibility of compensating a deficit Granada's historic green spaces and their location more conducive to two neighborhoods that have a ratio (inhabitants per square meter) of the highest in Andalucía.


To understand the shortcomings of the current station proposal, we must go back to the decision of opposition to the council, then PP, suing two metro lines (one exterior, the other way round and inside by La Gran Via) instead the shuffled in principle. The final proposal was reduced only to the outside line. In this intermodal option favored placing the subway and AVE station on the Camino de Ronda and most populous missed stops that give meaning, usefulness and viability of any transport. When trying to fill this gap so that the meters collect at least the potential users of the Hospital Ruiz de Alda, becomes the old station location. This is where, I believe, produces the biggest mistakes: First, it misses the best route in terms of clientele and proximity to the center, which would be: bus station, Plaza de Toros. After it impossible to approach central park and finally because it misses the benefits the project offers panoramic Moneo. When it comes to combining intermodal and spectacular, a winding subway after a long journey coming to the AVE station, killing two inexplicably stops close together.

Once the station located Moneo, it would be appropriate to consider again the possibility that the subway runs along the Camino de Ronda to the TGV station to avoid a winding course of nearly useless km, with the sole purpose of collecting the users of the Creek. This would lead us to resort to a different formula transport these and take them to the train station. This will free up lots of space for green areas, which could increase: Reducing the number of parking, merging the Stadium of Youth Rugby field at the site of the latter and moving part of urban growth, located on the north side, the current Youth Stadium.

PD. I have serious doubts because of the images broadcast on the station, which it collects the best possible views. In the pictures I see the Wall Ziri and this would be a serious mistake because this site offers one of the few opportunities to contemplate in all its fullness from the urban fabric.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Altima Coupe Headers Altima 2.5 Vs 3.5 Race?

AVE ABERRATION QUALIFY AVE URBAN PLANNING AND LAND PROPOSED BY TRAIN MONEO

At a press conference held on the grounds of Granada Renfe spokesman for the Greens, Mario Ortega, who coordinates the Platform for the Grand Central Park Millennium Renfe, has criticized the draft Moneo who have brought to light some media Granada before the architect comes to presenting it to the city.
For Ortega "Granada needed AVE train station of XXI century and a large green area in the center of the city and Granada do not need more massive urban, and more tentative. Moeno a mistake by not taking into account the proposed Central Park Grand Millennium Renfe, "continues Ortega.
and Platform Greens regret that the appointment of Moneo is carry out a finger across the former Minister Magdalena Alvarez as this architect works with ADIF, and that your project does not take into account the needs of the city, for this reason we recall that "his work and that of ADIF, is paid taxes all Granada and Granada, all the Andalusian Andalusian and all English citizens. "
The Platform for Millennium Park in Renfe has collected over 9,000 signatures, has a facebook group with more than 1,300 accessions and their project is supported by more than 30 organizations and citizen groups. So does not understand "the indolence of the authorities towards Granada, whether the state, the regional or local, as intended to prepare an entry AVE" in trench, ie separated by a sore Chana district of the rest of the city, when a historic opportunity buried from the outskirts of the city, but also want the works and will finance the new station with a new hotel in the area, building more floors and doing more streets. Not to mention the aberration of having to change again the route of the metro, as they have destroyed the little walk and gardens of science. "Ortega says
"Once again demonstrates the lack of coordination and botched when of urban planning in the city if the project goes ahead we will lose a historic opportunity to build an intermodal AVE buried with a large gazebo in the city and a lush green park. " This would be the great urban transformation of Granada for the XXI century, "yet we want to make an aberration with little public land heritage left for the city."

PRESS LINKS: Granada

Digital
GREENS CRITICAL PUBLIC LAND SALE TO FUND THE AVE

La Opinión de Granada
BIRD PROJECT "an aberration" FOR THE GREEN

Radio Granada
LV described as "absurd and irrational" draft to Granada city railway station

TELEPRENSA
Greens aberration eligible urban planning and land AVE Renfe

Also in Canal Sur Radio Onda Cero Granada, Granada Hoy, local TV, ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Using Database In Games

A project aberrant

Destruction Continuous - dated. Moneo draft shows how irrational the route of the metro. Now make a U to reach the new station next to Ronda. Ie 600 meters of the route, which would have been avoided if the meter had elapsed directly by way of providing the same service round ... io. Urban planning in this city is absurd. Note in the new street level next to the little walk, the floor area with birds, the hotel near Ronda and the parking area under the bridge.
aberrant, aberrant, aberrant.

You can check this link to view the MONEE

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Black And White Gothic Bedding

MONEO PROPOSAL WILL like our

Moneo places the new AVE train station and along Camino de Ronda Pajaritos

Click on the link above and see.

continue to defend the project in its entirety.

this new proposal also highlights the underground path by paseíllo university.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Angel Wings And Footprints

some 9,000 people to support our initiative CIVIC


1,106 FACEBOOK, join if you want the link to GROUP the right

this 68 BLOG

8,000 signatures on paper.

And a new partnership: Naiad, Association of Students of Environmental Sciences, Granada. Already

34 associations or collectives.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

How To Fill Out A 4187 For School Deferment

Without People , squares

by Sergio Montero
Soon, thanks to the Ordinance Coexistence, in force since November 11, Granada will have public spaces grounded in a "rational and orderly" (art. 71 of the Ordinance). And I wonder: who wants what?
The terms 'rational' and 'ordered' associated with the city have never been big successes. Here we have to Brasília, the capital of Brazil, one of the best examples of rational and orderly city, and certainly one of the most boring and inhospitable world. Brasília was inaugurated in 1960 after four years of work led by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lucio Costa, two of the greatest representatives of modern architecture and rational middle of last century. Brasília is an urban utopia of concrete apartment blocks evenly spaced in the homes were designed as "machines for living ', and the reserved for public parks, highways and geometric. Brasília public space, based on the idea of \u200b\u200border and rationality, contributes little to the person viewing the city from the street and not from the map. After a brief visit to the Brazilian capital, the French philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir wrote in Brasília more than a city that resembled a real-size model, a city that never would have soul and flesh and it lacked the spontaneity and whimsical mix Street that gives life to other cities.
square city blocks of concrete and cement parks is not, of course, unique to Brasília. Nor is it something new that will bring the ordinance Coexistence of Granada. Just take a walk through the new urban developments Beiro District, near the CC Alcampo, or by new blocks of flats on the outskirts of the Northern Zaidín or to see the Granada of places spacious without trees and empty benches where there is no stopping an August afternoon. But no, the ordinance of Coexistence does not come to change the physical appearance of the new urban spaces in Granada but something more important: the social dimension of existing public space.
The public space has two inseparable aspects of each other: the physical dimension - streets, plazas and street furniture - and the social dimension or, in other Thus, the use that citizens make it. That is why the quality of urban public space can not be measured only in physical terms, urban design or apparent order. The quality of public space in a city is also measured by the amount, intensity and quality of social relationships that can promote as well as its capacity to welcome and mixing behavior groups and citizens who otherwise would never meet in space private. In other words, public space is not designed for passive admiration, conservation and idolatry, but one of the most important elements are there in town to promote actively the social and cultural integration of its citizens and for the identification and construction of collective identities. Ordinance Coexistence of Granada attentive precisely against this social and inclusive public space because it regulates and punishes excessively interactions and encounters in public space and that criminalizes and punishes the most vulnerable social groups in our city - beggars and Prostitutes - instead of finding solutions to promote their integration. Thus under the guise of a supposed and citizenship, public space in Granada not only become a physical space sterile, elitist and hyper-regulated, but will help to increase social fragmentation of the city. The ordinance prohibits and punishes, for example, the performance of mimes, musicians and street artists, leaving "in the opinion of the local police" the ability to decide if these are causing unacceptable discomfort (art. 20). This prohibition, however, only the beginning of a long list that includes, inter alia, the prohibition of "public display of drunkenness" (art. 23), putting up posters and advertisements in the street and hand out leaflets (art. 38), the spontaneous practice of games in public spaces as well as acrobatics, roller skates and skateboards (art. 46), begging (art. 50), prostitution (art. 54), spitting on the street (art. 57), drinking in the street, whether in a bottle as if it consumes a can of beer individually on the street, or in case how to drink "is demeaning to externalize as passers" (art. 71), pour water on the street as a result of watering the plants and any type of waste to shake clothing or carpet (art. 72), noise or any kind of discomfort from moving furniture or home repairs not only between the 23 and 7 am, but also between 15 and 17 hours (art. 95), any "actions that may stain or tarnish, for any method, way or public space or that are contrary to the cleanliness, aesthetics, physical integrity and economic value of public property elements installed in the road or in public spaces "(art. 104), "throw gum on the pavement or soil," "select, classify and remove any residual material deposited on public roads" and "throw cigarette butts" (art. 105). And so a total of 183 articles. In closing, the Ordinance gives the City the right to set opening and closing times for any public space or garden city (art. 83).
As I said at the time the urban planner and activist Jane Jacobs one of the most influential works in contemporary planning practice, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, planning policies rationalists represent the largest urban area threat to life and the daily life of communities and urban neighborhoods. Instead, these policies produce sterile spaces, isolated and unnatural because they refuse to humans and the complexity and apparent chaos that characterizes us. Just take a look at the history and world geography to see that the most historic cities are precisely those that have emerged endogenously and not rational decisions imposed from above. The New York Greenwich Village, Jane Jacobs argued to death in front of rational planning of the then Mayor Robert Moses, is a good example and Montmartre in Paris, the Bairro Alto Lisbon or our own Albayzín. History and geography show that urban utopias based on the order and rationality have never functioned Who would rather live in Brasília have the privilege of choosing any other city in Brazil? I certainly prefer to hear the sounds of Rio de Janeiro and the music of Carnival before enjoying the silence and order in the streets of Brasília.
The loss of the integrative function of social and public space is in Granada accompanied by another kind of interpretation of public space, an interpretation based on the criminalization of vulnerable individuals and minorities who do not share the attitudes and values \u200b\u200bof the majority. In this regard, the Ordinance of Coexistence has elements similar to previous laws to democracy such as Law of Vagrants and Crooks during the Franco regime that persecuted and criminalized homeless people, homosexuals and other individuals deemed "anti-social."
The good news is that the spirit of citizen participation in Grenada has emerged in the capital and reaction to the entry into force of the Ordinance, whether through demonstrations in urban space and on the Internet. New facebook groups, web pages , posts in different blogs , documentaries, articles in The Country , Ideal , Granada Today and other media have shown that citizenship is Granada alive and claiming their right to participate in the construction of public space and the laws that govern it. In facebook, for example, on 17 December, the group created against Ordinance Coexistence already had 7,000 members. On the other hand should not forget that the establishment of certain rules, formal or informal, is essential for living in any space, whether public or private. However, the prohibitions and penalties provided in the Ordinance of Coexistence go further and threaten the very social dimension of public space.
Domenico Siena As noted in a recent article has appeared simultaneously in the Andalucian blog Viva City and the Urban Ecosystem blog, "the public space is no longer an area of \u200b\u200bopportunity for the community, their managers seem to consider it only as a space problem and only act to empty it and prevent any problems, limiting all types of spontaneous activity of citizens. " These ideas predict with accuracy almost dramatic changes taking place in public space Granada in recent years.
In short, what is the 'rationality' and 'order' is being pushed to the Grenadian public spaces? Streets and parks "square empty and silent? Maybe we should then pull down the irrational Albayzín and the center of Granada and build in its place gray blocks of apartments, residential homes and parks identical sterilized. The question is, again, who want those spaces and what's so original? Who wants a sterile Granada, rational and empty seats and quiet that only dirty wax on Easter? As recalled hundreds of citizens of Granada in the Plaza del Carmen on 27 November: no people, places die. No seats and spontaneity, the city also dies. Sergio Montero

Granada is a researcher in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. And it supports the Platform for the Grand Central Park Millennium Renfe

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Event Title For Birthday Facebook

die GRANADA AND ITS GOALS, by Mario Ortega


Cities like dreams, are constructed
desires and fears,

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

was once a city that would meet soon thousand years. At least that decided some heroes of the place. While the academic debate about its origin is alive, and it seems quite likely that before birth and was born, and even before there had been a place and the Iberian and Roman settlement called Iliberri. In any case, many centuries ago that the fruit of the pomegranate gave its name, Granada. A name to pronounce so happy that sparkle in the mouth rubies and poppies.

The Granada today retains in her bosom pearls and empty, poets and doctors, teachers and language lovers, public wasteland and courtyards, loss and forgetting, amalgamated by a political elite that feeds with a drop of milk everyday its real power. A complete food supplied in the appropriate dosage numbs the mind and prevents death. Granada today The past lives of mortgaging the future. A remote and ancient past evoked in postcards for tourists, as in Italo Calvino Maurilia "do not represent Maurilia as it was, but to another city who happened to be called Maurilia like this." The fact is that the inhabitants of Granada is increasingly more difficult to recognize Granada in Granada. Tourists do not have that problem, arrive at Albayzín and the Alhambra, walk along the Carrera del Darro, minibuses up to the Sacromonte night, and go fast, like all tourists in the world, to count with the graphic testimony of his thousand digital photos, which were in a place like Granada.
While all this happens, the people of the city are immersed daily in another city. In the city daily there are girls working early risers of pockets for 600 euros, grandmothers waiting for a bus with infinite patience, young people aware of the lightness of your life, tear with their bikes a peace that no longer exists, circumspect adults inside of his car, breathing the miasma girls a persistent pollution, mothers with their babies are not mature trees on the roofs of parking, athletes have to play paddle tennis and twelve euros per hour, people from the neighborhood which have to like golf but do not want to, art students who dream Berlin neighborhood merchants see their businesses splash veguero am frightened by the large commercial.

While all this happens, a few councilors met in municipal halls urged by their own indolence to agree on a few proposals worthy of the millennial celebration. Among the possible proposals million chose nineteen. "Morning sunshine and good weather, to say the classic Total loss. Granada will be World Capital Poetry Festival City, will celebrate the World Judo Championships and end up here the Tour of Spain. Granada will Albaycín rehabilitated, its center will be declared a World Heritage Site, and will focus on disadvantaged areas, Zona Norte to the head. Granada will Bienal de Flamenco and Andalusian music and Sephardic, there will be a Congress of History of the Kingdom of Granada, Culture Summit and Millennium Technology Prize. You end up outstanding infrastructure. To do all this and more, there will be lots and lots and lots of participation. Pomp and fireworks that are pleasing to the city drop of milk which give rise to propose more ideas for the Millennium. This could suggest a Congress Organisers Festivals of Music and Dance, World Falconry (which will be very Nazari), an Event of Economists for the Millennium, a meeting of Historical Fiction Novelists Specialist, World Championships and Esoteric Philosophy Arabian, and much more, and only time.

Few voices have been heard, not criticizing the proposals, which we may like it or not, because they all seem worthy has millennium or not, but asking a celebration more reflective, more consistent, to raise goals act on the real problems city \u200b\u200band its people. Voices warn that you can not start the house through the roof, which needs a commitment of state. Voices raised why we celebrate, why we celebrate and what we celebrate. Voices that define social, economic and environmental view to a more sustainable city. Voices that bring to light the best of what past generations left us, as the Vega, to bequeath to our sons and daughters the best of our generation. Mobility, protection of agricultural environment and landscape, environmental infrastructure, cultural, tourist, social, educational and sporting activities, which regenerate tissue and urban life, to promote civility and tolerance, are quite objective necessary. The pomp and festivities will follow, no doubt it.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

In Memory Poem For Wedding Program

CALL FROM MY ROOM


by Alejandro Prieto


Every time I see "English for the World" within the four walls of my room overlooking the cemented gray and lifeless on my street, I wonder why Granada can not be large green areas where we do sports, breathe, relax and feel alive like so many millions of Europeans, Americans and civilized people around the world. What narrow-mindedness to disable our leaders enthusiastically support ideas such as the Gran Parque Central de Renfe, which would not only a great lung in the center of Granada, but a unique and spectacular economic pull evident throughout the city. What makes you think that any new solar consistently can not have another role that streets accommodate more and more buildings. Why architects like Rafael Moneo reconocidísimos discarded a priori the possibility of a park with leafy trees, as if that were a radical and unworkable idea, and heed not the unanimous voices of neighbors who call for a truly natural space where people of all ages can enjoy away from smoke, pollution and dirt.

is inevitable that over the years arrive the level of Canadian or Scandinavian, the question is how many generations will have bad life until politicians understand what is the quality of life.