Edges, Patches, and Street Vendors

  With today’s post, I am diverging a bit and beginning with a focus on street vending in Los Angeles, where I reside. At the recent American Planning Association’s Annual Continue reading →

Street Vending and Public Market Typologies in Santiago, Chile

Building on my previous post and given that my research’s intent was to observe and document public market and street vending typologies in Latin America, what follows is a generalized Continue reading →

Incremental housing or Sites&Services Reloaded?

elel Quinta Monroy, housing project in Iquique (Chile) by Elemental; Image taken from Eduardo Rojas presentation at the IADB Most of the cities in developing countries have been constructed using incremental Continue reading →

Coleros, Feriantes, and Power in Santiago, Chile

The Feria Modelo Juan Pinto Duran in the Municipality of Macul, Santiago, Chile, June 2011. Credit: Jennifer Renteria The Santiago province consists of 47 communes (or municipalities), with the Municipality Continue reading →

Latin American Street Vending and Public Markets

Intro Post by Jennifer Renteria This last summer, I traveled throughout Latin America in search of public markets and street vendors with the help of the USC School of Architecture Continue reading →