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...building approvals and land deals with Madrid and regional authorities. Not everyone is pleased. "We should take care not to lose the strength of historical downtown districts against the magnetism of these huge malls," says Alfonso Vegara, president of the International Society of City and Regional Planners. He cites Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, as an example; the city has one of the largest historic centers in Europe, but the area has declined as pedestrian traffic has dropped and small businesses have shut down. Valencia is trying to bounce back with new cultural attractions (Time, May 26), but Madrid...
...codex is, in terms of importance to scholars, like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls in a rural town in Mexico,” said Ann Seiferle-Valencia, a third year graduate student in anthropology who is writing a dissertation on the codex...
...don’t always hear about Mexican scholarship as we should,” Seiferle-Valencia said. “The Rockefeller Center can...prevent the codex from being squirrelled away in an anthropology department...
...codex comes from a family of documents from the same town,” Seiferle-Valencia said. “This is the largest, the most heavily illustrated and one of the most complex. It’s the jewel of the group...
...Espinosa was the primary impetus for this project,” Seiferle-Valencia said. “She wants to know about the codex, to get scholars involved, and to contribute to the public...