Following is a link a to good, quick article on Medellin’s transformation. It nicely resumes and simplifies the situation, as well as compliments the information already present in FAVELissues (on Continue reading
Post by Marines Pocaterra[Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Classical urban theory prescribed strict centralized planning, containment and land use control. It seems new trends are evolving within urban science. But Continue reading
Post by Arqui 5 With the increasing growth and expansion of cities, there is increasing global concern. Shlomo Angel, a visiting fellow at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has produced a Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas The electoral year ( Venezuela has Presidential election in October 2012) bring new opportunities to rethink the housing policies, of course aiming Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Adriana’s last post, More Definitions: Informality vs. Informalities, made me think, once more, about the meaning of informality. I’m not talking Continue reading
Post by Marines Pocaterra [Proyectos Arqui 5] The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 was a landmark achievement for the international community. They constitute one of the Continue reading
To my friends and family who are unfamiliar with my town, I’ve often described it by asking them to picture the US in the pre-interstate highway era. It’d take about Continue reading
While reading some of the posts from last week, I couldn’t help but ask myself again ‘What is informality?’ The more I learn about the subject, the more difficult it Continue reading
São Paulo, Narobi, Lagos, Mexico City, Cairo, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Caracas – Megacities. Through the various stories, explorations, photos, and inquiries of favelissues we peer into the Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Last year, a friend invited us to participate in a self-build housing program. It was then, that we heard, for the first time, Continue reading
If you haven’t seen some iteration or other of the “KONY 2012″ campaign yet, you have lived a dearly rare life in America over the last few months. Likely as Continue reading
AESTHETIZATIONS+GENTRIFICATION “Observers of the contemporary city have described the late capitalist urban condition as characterized by a trend toward the aesthetization, where the primacy of the visual and the centrality Continue reading
My last post looked at stair design in favelas in São Paulo, Brazil, and how spatial constraint, material availability, and communal negotiation impact design. This post will look at another Continue reading
Adriana’s post reminds me of a project that we built as architecture undergrads in Mumbai. As a part of a short workshop conducted at KRVIA[1], we decided to build a Continue reading
As I noted in my last post, professional architectural design has recently come to be seen as a valid and potentially effective approach to improving informal settlements. I have long Continue reading
I have been teaching art classes to kids in a favela in the north zone of São Paulo for two years now. One of our staple activities is free drawing Continue reading
Post by Marines Pocaterra [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas We all agree that urban interventions should be positive social actions that focus their benefits on low-income urban dwellers. There is Continue reading
As part of a one-year research fellowship, at the Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute for Architecture, I studied processes of urban development and land acquisition in Mumbai, through the academic year Continue reading
By 2050, 55% of India’s population is expected to live in cities[1]. While it has been noted that the influx of people into cities shall create a high demand for Continue reading
2-La ‘Niña’: too much water? “La maldita ‘Niña‘ ha sido el karma de mi Gobierno” (The darn “Niña’ has been the karma of my government). Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia THE Continue reading
