Overview
- Analyzes architecture and urban planning applied in the Panama Canal Zone and its relationship with the USA
- Deals with historical study of urban landscaping and tree planting that was integrally applied in Panama Canal Zone
- Is the first in-depth study on the heritage value of the urbanism and landscaping of Fort Clayton
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book highlights the role of North American entomologists and health workers in developing control strategies for diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and how mosquito’s ecology determined building regulations that shaped the image of the Canal Zone towns. On the other hand, the book determines the environmental assessment of Fort Clayton, determined by the two fundamental aspects that set on the environmental impact of an urban settlement. The first one is the suitability of the site's location. The secondis the urban structure of the adopted city model and its impact on the connectivity of the surrounding forests during the twentieth century.
This text is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, architects, urban planners, historians, and environmental science professionals.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Graciela Arosemena Díaz, Ph.D., is currently a Professor at the University of Panama in the Department of Planning in the School of Architecture and is a member of the National System of Research (Sistema Nacional de Investigación). She combines teaching and research projects on urban sustainability and landscape. She is an architect and received her Master of Science degree in Urban Environment and Sustainability and her Ph.D. in Energy and Environment in Architecture, both from Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Barcelona Tech). She is the author and co-author of books and articles on landscape and urban sustainability.
Almyr Alba, M.Sci., is an architect and a historic preservation specialist, is currently Professor at the University of Panamá, in the School of Architecture. Her research, publications, and conservation practice have contributed to the conservation of several historic sites at Panama. Alba received her Master of Science degrees from theUniversity of Pennsylvania with emphasis in architectural conservation under the auspices of a Fulbright scholarship.
Maria Stapf, Sc.D., is currently a professor at the University of Panamá, in the Department of Botany, Universidad de Panama. She has been the botanical consultant in the National Forest and Carbon Inventory, within the framework of the Joint United Nations Program for the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and also has been a research assistant in Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Stapf received her Doctor in Science—Botany—from Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Development and the Panama Canal Zone
Book Subtitle: The Case of Fort Clayton
Authors: Graciela Arosemena Díaz, Almyr Alba, María Sánchez de Stapf
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38770-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38769-2Published: 28 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38772-2Due: 29 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38770-8Published: 27 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Sustainable Development, Environment, general