Sustainable Built Environments: Building Information Modeling, Biomaterials, and Regenerative Practices in Mexico

This article explores how the construction sector can significantly contribute to minimizing its environmental impact through reuse and recycling practices, in rehabilitation or new construction projects. This research focuses on implementing BIM methodology alongside biomaterials, 3D modeling, and digitization in compliance with the Green Building Code. Two case studies located in Jalisco and Querétaro (Mexico) are examined through a comparative analysis. The simulations are carried out...

Urban metabolism of human settlements in small island-protected environments

Few studies have succeeded in illustrating the relationships between resources, socio-territorial dynamics, and the environs in protected island environments of Outstanding Value, a quality that positions them as experimental laboratories for the study of human evolution and the planet's ecosystems. The literature reviewed refers to different scientific productions where the analysis of the flow of matter and energy is applied to study urban metabolism. As a methodology, three important phase...

Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies

Matera: the Sassi of through Trade, Consumption and Tourism*

The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) process-event has contributed to amplify the main transformations of the commercial structure in Matera. This paper proposes an analysis of the recent transformation of the historical Sassi neighborhood, aimed at pointing out the changes in trade and consumption practices, considering the effects that the development of tourism, one among the main drivers of the changes occurred, has produced in this area. Indeed, the Sassi neighborhood represents a def...