Centro de Escalada Urbana: Connecting and Inspiring Rocinha’s Youth

Once, climbing among the granite crags of Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, I met a Brazilian climber who described climbing in Continue reading →

Bolsonaro and Rocinha

If you’ve followed politics in the Western Hemisphere over the past two years, you are pretty familiar with the pattern Continue reading →

Olympics revisited – Rio’s Morro da Providencia

For this next post, I want to revisit the oldest favela in Rio de Janeiro- Morro da Providencia- a favela Continue reading →

Gondolas+cable cars+telesféricos

Image above: Medellín’ s Cable in the Comunas 1 and 2; source: Albeiro Lopera I wanted to share an article by Continue reading →

Lessons on the Margins of UN Habitat III

When I asked Dr George Handley for permission to share his story from UN Habitat III, he was reluctant at Continue reading →

Planning Failure, Ecological Failure

  The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture, Technological Entrapment, and the Pioneering Spirit

How informal urbanism affects the way we think about formal urbanism is one of the crucial questions we ask here Continue reading →

Architecture Inverse [episode2]

Mutirão. Brazil Guest post by Andrés Sanchez Arias   This chapter showcases self-construction and self-management experiences in Sao Paulo, Brazil. To begin, Continue reading →