Integration of the former Panama Canal Zone into Metro Panama City

The author, an architect-planner, Urbio, S.A., Panama, graduate of the School of Architecture, University of Panama, the Institut d'Urbanisme, University of Paris, and Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has held key positions in a variety of public and private planning agencies as a consultant and specialist in Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) for major development projects in Panama such as Land Use and Traffic Study of the Port of Balboa; Development Plan for Sherman-San Lorenzo; La Cuenca Hidrográfica del Canal de Panamá: Posibilidades de un Desarrollo Sustentable (The Hydrographical Basin of the Panama Canal: Possibilities for Sustainable Development); Metodologías de Avalúo de los Terrenos Revertidos del Area del Canal (Methodologies for the Valuation of Reverted Land of the Area of the Canal); and Estudio Urbanístico y Demográfico del Area Metropolitana de Panamá (Urban and Demographic Study of the Metropolitan Regionof Panama). Alvaro Uribe has also published La Ciudad Fragmentada (The Fragmented City), an essay on urban development in Panama City (Panama City, CELA, Ediciones Formato Dieciséis, 1989), and a considerable number of papers and a study report on the subject of this paper and other related projects. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001. It was kindly translated from the Spanish by Professor Lawrence D. Mann, also a member of the WSE and a participant at the Symposion.

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The Male of Mecynometa Globosa (O. P.-Cambridge) (Araneae, Argiopidae)

Psyche A Journal of Entomology ◽

10.1155/1963/42783 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 70 (3) ◽

pp. 180-183

Author(s):

Arthur M. Chickering

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Central America ◽

Panama Canal ◽

Female Specimen ◽

Canal Zone ◽

San Lorenzo ◽

Panama Canal Zone

The female of this species was described from Guatemala by the elder Pickard-Cambridge in 1889. Apparently it was known only from that part of Central America until Dr. Petrunkevitch reported a female specimen from the Wilcox camp on the San Lorenzo River in Panama in 1925. Mr. Banks reported two females from the Panama Canal Zone in 1929. I now have in my collection about two dozen females from several localities in the Canal Zone and El Valle, Panama. Only three males have appeared in the collection and all were collected in 1934 and 1936. Mecynometa is an interesting genus with a total of seven species now known. Simon described a species from the African Congo; five species have been described from South America; M. globosa (O. P,-Cambridge) is now known from two countries in Central America. Because males have hitherto been unknown I have thought it worth while to describe one of these in this brief paper.

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A Canal Treaty out of the Dark Ages

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900030084 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

pp. 4-8

Author(s):

Martha Bennett Stiles

Keyword(s):

Strong Support ◽

Panama Canal ◽

Ford Administration ◽

Canal Zone ◽

Dark Ages ◽

Panama Canal Zone ◽

The Republic ◽

The U.S

Seventy-three years ago the U.S. connived in the secession of the Republic of Panama from Colombia in return for the privilege of building a canal across the Panamanian Isthmus "on a strip of land leased in perpetuity." Within this 533-square-mile zone the U.S. was to exercise, forever, all those rights that it "would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory..." Today the significance of that "if" is much debated.Although Ronald Reagan's campaign position—that the Panama Canal Zone is as much a part of the U.S. as is Alaska—has been deplored by the Ford Administration, it maintains strong support in the Senate.

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