Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romeropresents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. He begins by examining issues faced by other border regions including those dividing North and South Korea and Israel and Palestine. A brief summary of the U.S.Mexico border's recent history provides a much-needed context for a detailed portrait of the many unique issues the two countries face today. Romero uses current economic, political, social, andenvironmental trends to project potential scenariosboth positive and negativefor the border at the midway mark of the twenty-first century. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau's Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate. Nonpartisan in its politics and tackling issues from both U.S. and Mexican perspectives, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understandand find solutions forthe many intertwined issues that define this complex region of the world, and others like it.
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Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a 700-mile-long fence: the U.S.Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. With more than one million daily crossings, the border has increasingly has become a hotbed for debate. But too often its complexities are viewed through the myopic lens of illegal immigration, ignoring a multitude of other critical issues that include health, the environment,drug trafficking, free trade, and post-9/11 security.
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Fernando Romero's brilliant new book -- Metropolitan News-Enterprise, June 6, 2008
Romero's work transcends the usual debate on immigration issues...augmented by some of the most impressive charts and photographs this reviewer has ever seen in a text. The book is well written and fully footnoted. It should appeal to a wide variety of academics interested in the US-Mexico border area and the issues confronting this area. Summing up: Recommended. -- Choice, February 2008
Romero's work transcends the usual debate on immigration issues...augmented by some of the most impressive charts and photographs this reviewer has ever seen in a text. The book is well written and fully footnoted. It should appeal to a wide variety of academics interested in the US-Mexico border area and the issues confronting this area. Summing up: Recommended. -- Choice, February 2008
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Fernando Romero is the founder of Laboratory of Architecture (LAR), a Mexico City-based architecture firm established with the ambition of addressing contemporary society through a process of architectural translation and urban study. He worked as an architect in the office of Rem Koolhaas from 1996 to 1999 and has designed buildings around the world. Romero was born in Mexico City, where he currently resides.
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"Excels in the every aspect" "The Most Comprehensive Book on the US/Mexico Border",
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There is no other book that explains better what the US/Mexico Border is. It should be read by all of those that want to understand issues about the border including policy makers at all levels.
It is important that we understand the integrartion between Mexico and the United States that exist and that can have a very possitive impact to the economy of both countries. This is a must for all Universities.
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Lots of graphics and photos, but the whole book was written basically by surfing the internet. There are several conflicting statstical citations. Flashy, but there are a lot of better books on the subject.
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