Ciudad, territorio y Favela. I

Durante los últimos treinta años del siglo XX, América Latina experimentó un rápido crecimiento de la población urbana, las necesidades 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 →

De-colonizing Favela

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

Thinking about Fronteras

  From the beginning the presidential election process of the United States of North America, the issue of the physical Continue reading →

I am Home: The ‘New’ Place of Heritage

Post by Diana Maldonado & Marysol Uribe. [1] In the current times, facing the paradigm of the post-global world, the Continue reading →

The Age of Favelas

[1] My proposal for this ‘post’ is to introduce the theoretical term Off-Planning as the resilient strategy of Latin American Continue reading →

Urban Theory & Favelas [II]

[‘Guest Post’ por Diana Padilla] Sobre los ‘espaces autres’: En las ciudades del siglo XXI existen lugares que son ignorados Continue reading →

Urban Theory & Favelas [I]

  [1] The idea of rethinking a “new” urban theory from Latin American squatter settlements began during the development of Continue reading →