Recently, the Espacio Foundation published a new book, Interventions in Public Spaces in Sucre Municipality” (Intervenciones de espacios públicos en barrios del municipio Sucre). The book documents a program set Continue reading
Just about every American I know who’s been just about anywhere in Latin America baffles about how all the good real estate is the bad real estate. In the US, Continue reading
Social psychologists at the London School of Economics partner with Brazilian researchers and challenge us to consider grassroots struggles for social inclusion rather than focus solely on marginality and exclusion. Researchers Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas This week the CAF announced the results of the second international competition of Urban Development and Social Inclusion. I’m proud and Continue reading
The author revisits 13 conjoined favelas, known as Complexo do Alemão, after one year to see how ‘favela integration’ projects are progressing. Last week I had the opportunity to attend Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Just yesterday the verdict of the jury in Venice was made public, and the discussion in Caracas went immediately bitter and Continue reading
I would like pick up from Lubaina’s post on Green Washing Mumbai and discuss particular spatial typologies that are manifestations of Mumbai’s Bourgeois Environmental sensibilities. As Lubaina explains in her Continue reading
In my last entry Another Periphery I introduced Igaraí, a rural farming town in the state of São Paulo and the Guilherme Zaneti public housing complex located just outside the Continue reading
Last month I posted on how catadores–people who earn their living by picking through solid waste to glean and resell recyclables–in Brazil set a positive example of how personal thrift Continue reading
One of the most striking aspects about Hong Kong is the clear tabula rasa approach, making the urban structures in the city not more tan 50 years old. This tabula 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
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
See PART 1 The winning bid for the XIX Commonwealth Games quoted in 2003 was Rs. 1,899 crore (420 mi USD) for the successful planning and execution of the games. Continue reading
Urban and rural developments in India have heavily impacted the lives of the poor by facilitating economic growth and global competition, and in the bargain producing large populations of displaced Continue reading
(13 Arrondissement – Paris on the left and Adams Morgan – DC on the right) So far I have decided to stay away from sharing things about my personal life 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
Continuing the dialogical debate between FAVELissues writers about the conflation of informality and slums at the glocal scale. Following Lubiana’s post about urban informality as a form of protesting economic inequality Continue reading
