De-colonizing Favela

  Post by Diana Maldonado & Emanuel Giannotti [1] [2]. In the last decades, the ‘forms’ of urban informality in Continue reading →

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, 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 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 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 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 Continue reading →