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BLURRED LINES // URBAN INTERFERENCES AND THE RENEWED CONCEPTION OF BORDERS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY BLURRED LINES THE SIX PACES OF CHANGE fashion //art commerce infrastructure governance culture nature According to a theory developed by the writer Stewart Brand, there are "six signi ficant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization": as to this way of 'reading' the world, life is regulated- by a series of layers that appear to be distinguished and stratified as to their pace, but – at the same time - interweaved from a cause-effect standpoint. These six layers are, from fast to slow: fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture and nature. CHANGE IN SPATIAL DIVERGENCES : THE SAN DIEGO / TIJUANA BORDER REGION FOUR SIGNIFICANT POINTS ON THE BORDER Many are the variables that are subject to change if we analyze two different parts of the border. In order to give a comprehensive view of the dynamics that regulate interaction in the border area, here are four diagrams of the border area (100 KM on both sides of the boundary). The four points that have been taken into account are: the sea in TIME & SPACE PASSED THE COASTLINE, A QUARTER-MILE BARRIER HAS BEEN BUILT 300 FEET INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. THE FENCE IS SUPPOSED TO INHIBIT ILLEGAL TRADE OF DRUGS AND PEOPLE (THROUGH THE SO-CALLED COYOTES). ANYHOW, THERE STILL EXISTS A MARGIN OF THIS TRADE THAT PASSES THROUGH UNDETECTED. ON THE BORDER BETWEEN THE US AND MEXICO, THERE IS A TOTAL OF 46 PORTS OF ENTRY, THAT REPRESENT THE ONLY LEGAL WHERE THE FENCE ISN'T THERE, THE US GOVERNMENT HAS MANY OTHER WAYS TO ENFORCE THE SAN DIEGO -60% WAY TO CROSS THE BOUNDARY. ONE OF THE BIGGEST LEGAL SINCE 2006 ISSUES ON THE BORDER IS THE WAIT THAT PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT BORDER AND KEEP IT SECURE. THE EXCHANGE OF INTANGIBLE ELEMENTS LIKE CULTURAL ONES IS NOT INHIBITED BY THE PHYSICAL PRESENCE, OF THE FENCE. TO WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS. MANY PEOPLE LIVE ON ONE SIDE AND WORK ON THE OTHER, AND NEED TO CROSS EVERYDAY. $ 3,530,997 Border areas are spaces that, despite their political separation, keep creating a network of mutual interferences as well as areas of mutual influence under the widest variety of profiles: they are active forces and resources that keep changing over time. daly cross spent yearly on border security by the us TIJ. daily 34, 898 23, 162 proximity to the coast, a section of the border where there's the fence, a point where there is a port of entry and one where there is no fence, but othere surveillance methods are employed. The San Diego-Tijuana border region, with a population of 5,271,078 people in 2012, is the largest bi-national conurbation shared between the United States and Mexico and the third largest in the world. Over the years, the border as divided people living in the San Diego County and the municipality of Tijuana over a wide range of differences attributed to language, culture, national security, public a host of other cross KEY safety and has formal activity informal activity border issues ranging from human migration to the environment. *** intangible exchanges the region knowledge and information NO FENCE 27 PORT OF education system FENCE HOW WAS THE BORDER BORN? ENTRY coastline trade of services The unemployment rate in US counties on the southern border is 5.6 percent compared to 4.7 percent in the rest of the country. Mexican border states have an average poverty rate of 28 percent, significantly mbelow the Mexican national average of 37 percent. language Aa N TEX MEX The San Diego/Tijuana border region is one of the busiest border crossing in the world. Over 65 million people cross the border every year, with an estimated 150,000 California residents and some 40,000 transborder Mexican residents making their way across the border each day. For all of these people, the border exists only as a political entity and as a piece of infrastructure standing physically between them and their daily lives: from all other perspectives, it proves itself to be almost nonexistent. MINING PÜRPOSES: MEXICAN LAND- OWNERS EXPELLED OPERATION WETBACK: 4 MINS MEXICANS DEPORTED O NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: GREAT INCREASE IN BORDER POPULATION TWIN TOWERS ATTACK INCREASES US BORDER PROTECTION FENCING PLACES 27 SPECIES AT GREATER RISK OF GLOBAL EXTINCTION LITTERACY TEST FOR IMMIGRANTS PROPERTY DISPUTES: CĂLFORNIA LAND ACT ON MAY 5 MESTIZO AND ZAPOTEC SOLDIERS DEFEAT THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE BATTLE OF PUEBLA. FIRST BORDER PATROL EST: AGAINST ASIANS FIRST DISCRIMINATION PROTESTS BỶ MEXICANS TALLER DE ARTE FRONTERIZO BORDER ART SECURE FENCE ACT: BUILDING OF NEARLY 700 MILES FENCE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT O IMMIGRATION ACT:BORDER STATION AND TAXES APPLIED BRACERO PROGRAM: US VISAS FOR WORKING MEXICANS FIRST MAQÜILADORAS INDUSTRIES INCREASE OF BORDER ENFORCEMENT MEASURES CORRIDO OF THE BORDER MEXICAN REVOLUTION IMMIGR NATURALIZ ACT EARLY 180OS 1848 1869 1900 1920 1910 1960 1990 Crossine