Tijuana Colonias
Another key space in Tijuana’s cultural revival is opening this weekend. Tijuana’s Plaza Revolución will celebrate its grand opening on Sunday, July 15. Plaza Revolución represents the third new cultural pasaje opened in the past two years as part of the revival of the historic Tijuana downtown. Like Pasaje Rodriguez, […]
Tijuana Colonias
Crossing the border between Tijuana and San Diego is a big pain. Just ask anyone around here. The San Ysidro Port of Entry is in fact the busiest land border crossing in the world. But it seems that we are still in denial. Wouldn’t it be nice if Washington D.C. […]
Tijuana Colonias
Fox News Latino reporter Rebekah Sager just published this fun piece on the new expat community in Tijuana. And yeah, this is me. hahaha! Check out the story! A New Breed of Younger, Hipper Expats Flock to Tijuana By Rebekah Sager Published June 04, 2012 Fox News Latino A […]
Tijuana Colonias
Scenes from the grand opening of Pasaje Gomez and Plaza Madero in downtown Tijuana on April 28, 2012. Video by Elias Carranco. Vete al Gomez! REACTIVANDO ESPACIOS presenta ARTS AND TREES from Elias Carranco on Vimeo.
Tijuana Colonias
When you think of art in downtown Tijuana, you think mostly of kitch. But Tijuana’s not what you think. Tonight I stopped by Pasaje Gomez to check out a gallery opening and I felt like I was walking through the narrow streets of a quaint Italian village. The walls […]
Tijuana Colonias
In San Diego, walking gets a bad rap. Just this morning about 8:30 AM, I was crossing El Cajon Blvd at one of its more awkward intersections–where the boulevard meets the 805 freeway–headed to Pancho Villa to buy some coffee to have with my breakfast. A business owner stared as […]
Tijuana Colonias
Remnants of the old Tijuana are easily neglected. The “old” pales in comparison to the tasteful glass and steel palette of Citibank-Banamex and the stately rows of palms along Paseo de los Heroes. The up-scale fascinates and demands our attention. Yet I’ve noticed that huge, garbage-strewn empty lots are also […]
Tijuana Colonias
In Tijuana, urban art is everywhere, and artists find their most important contributions lie in the way their work can reactivate spaces that lie far beyond the official “front stage” of tidy commerce in the city. As the urban theorist Michel de Certeau argued in The Practice of Everyday Life, […]
Border Wall / Texas Border Wall / Tijuana Colonias
Friday, April 1, 2011 (Originally published in La Prensa San Diego) By Kathleen Maclay UC BERKELEY The U.S.-Mexico border wall may be here to stay, but a University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of architecture has some provocative ideas about how to redesign the barrier to slow illegal immigration and […]
Tijuana Colonias
Just yesterday, I was out in Otay Mesa at the Brown Field Border Patrol station for a meeting, and I realized just how close we are to A.L. Rodriguez International Airport on the northeast side of Tijuana. You can literally get out of your car on Brittania Blvd, walk for […]