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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Tijuana."”.
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Send my love to Tijuana -- Tijuana sends her love : the transcendental Tijuanense telecommunications bridge to everywhere
Send My Love to Tijuana I Tijuana Sends Her Love replaces an existing pedestrian bridge that connects two vibrant neighborhoods in Tijuana, Mexico. The bridge is strategically situated to integrate itself into the city's urban fabric, while maintaining visibility from the United States Border and …
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Leverage of change : social housing in Tijuana, México
As a town that has heavy migration, Tijuana is in constant need of social housing for its lower income families. The demands of the population have created an overload on the government, and some third parties have begun addressing the housing issues. A study was carried out on two different types …
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Transborder Economic Development: A Collaborative Partnership in the San Diego-Tijuana Region
… and develop insights into the San Diego-Tijuana transborder economic collaborative partnership, by examining the Binational Planning and Coordination Committee (BPCC). This entity was established in 1993 via a Letter of Agreement between the City of San Diego and the municipality of …
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Landscapes of convergence : a proposal for exchange at the San Diego-Tijuana border
… relationship between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Although these two cities are part of a single landscape and ecology, they are divided, not only by a physical wall, but very different cultural, social, political and economic realities. This thesis is a proposition about exchange. …
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Sources and Transport of Black Carbon at the United States-Mexico Border near San Diego-Tijuana
… at the US-Mexico border in San Diego and Tijuana, we measured black carbon (BC) concentrations at three locations in Mexico and one in the United States. The measurements were intended to support the following objectives: to characterize the spatial and temporal variability in BC …
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Resistencia Indocumentada: Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Higher Education Undocumented Students In The San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
… students in college in the San Diego-Tijuana border region to consider what factors have led to resilience and resistance in their academic journey. By understanding these factors, the research aimed to tackle the dual narrative that burdens undocumented students from the illegality as …
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Historical Case Study: San Diego and Tijuana Border Region Relationship with the San Diego Police Department, 1957-1994
… the hills and canyons along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border region, on a nightly basis. As these helpless victims cross, border bandits and other criminals stalk these people and prey on them like predatory animals. The San Diego Police Department is charged with the responsibility of …
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in Two Communities in Tijuana, Mexico: maternal and household characteristics and pediatric development
… in two rural peri-urban communities in Tijuana, Mexico. To compare the specific proportions of milestone attainment in this region to an international standard comparison group. To describe baseline household and maternal characteristics of each study arm. To identify maternal and …
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Transborder Identity Development: A Photovoice Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Transfronterizx Students in Postsecondary and Higher Education at the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
… higher education institutions at the San Diego-Tijuana border region by examining the psychosocial and cognitive-structural factors that influenced their social identities. To generate the findings of this study, I conducted 11 photovoice focus groups and 20 one-on-one photovoice interviews in …
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The Experience of American and Canadian Cancer Patients in Deciding to Seek Alternative Care in Mexican Cancer Clinics
… many US and Canadian citizens travel to Tijuana, Mexico, for cancer care. The main criticism of these clinics is that they provide treatments that are unproven, potentially unsafe, and expensive. Despite this, about 35 clinics exist in Tijuana that provide alternative care to patients who …
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The Work of Living with HIV: A Study of Binational Groups
… with AIDS from San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico were interviewed using semi-structured questions. Data were analyzed using open and axial coding, the constant comparative method, and dimensional analysis. The work of living with HIV emerged as the central dimension within the …
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Public Education in Baja California and Tijuana's First School
… in particular the history of the first school in Tijuana, in order to provide the reader with a substantive, informative, and well documented study of the early stages of public education in Baja California Norte.</p>
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Zona Libre: Conservatism, Urban Growth, and the Rise of the New Economy in the San Diego Borderlands
… on their quality of life. </p> <p>The San Diego-Tijuana corridor, a uniquely urban binational space on the U.S.-Mexico border, proved an early microcosm between 1965-1995 of both the political and economic forces that would come to transform the United States moving into the twentieth-first …
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Realism & Language: How Luis Alberto Urrea Uses Bilingualism to Elevate His Works of Realism
… and language on the borderlands, <em>The Tijuana Book of the Dead Poems</em> (2015) depicts the blending of language within poetry alongside the experiences of Mexican-American immigrants, <em>The House of Broken Angels</em> (2019) describes a Mexican-American immigrant family’s struggles …
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Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
The urban fabric of communities along San Diego/Tijuana's la Línea or border wall are characterized by high degrees of spatial fragmentation: -- a condition typical of border interface areas in politically partitioned or divided cities. Despite being centrally located relative to population and …
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Renewable energy in electric utility capacity planning: a decomposition approach with application to a Mexican utility
… to determine the optimal expansion plan for the Tijuana-Mexicali subsystem of the Mexican electric utility system. A strong recommendation to push conservation programs in the desert city of Mexicali I results from this implementation.
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THE FUNCTION OF CINEMA IN THE WORKS OF GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE AND MANUEL PUIG (CUBA, ARGENTINA).
… by Puig, La cara del villano and Recuerdo de Tijuana (originally published in 1980), the first as an adaptation of a literary work and the second as an example of film noir. The chapter also deals with Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), an adaptation of the novel by Puig. Chapter 11 briefly …
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Characterization of Urban Air Pollutant Emissions by Eddy Covariance using a Mobile Flux Laboratory
… The second campaign took place in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. Distinct spatial differences in fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO₂), NO<sub>x</sub>, and particles were revealed across four sampling locations with the lowest fluxes occurring in a residential neighborhood and the …
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Neoliberalism and alternative food movements: markets, the state, and knowledge production in Southern California
… located south of the city in the wild Tijuana River Estuary at the U.S. – Mexico border. They call themselves “San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project.” These two movements emerge from San Diego’s history as two different trajectories. I found that by building a community garden and …
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