(In)formality: Instant Cities & Planned Transformations
I first started writing about Instant Cities in 2013 as a way to describe how post-crisis displacement and refugee camps Continue reading
Category Archives
Archive for: Uncategorized
What is all wrong about “Slum tourism”
The “revolución bolivariana” has done little to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers. What they have done is destroy Continue reading
Gender and the city
We usually think of ourselves as “naturally” gendered beings that inhabit or dwell in cities. In the following, I would Continue reading
But! What about me?
Next year the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes law in Sweden, this gives each child the right Continue reading
Borderslums
The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates the first and bleeds. ––Gloria Anzaldúa According to Gloria Continue reading
(In)formality: liminal cases
Communities that are rebuilding or reforming following a crisis exist in a constant flux of formality and informality. This liminal existence, at once formal and informal manifests itself physically in many of the places that displaced families seek shelter.
La estructura social como garante del desarrollo progresivo en el barrio venezolano
El desarrollo progresivo de los asentamientos informales venezolanos se debe en gran medida a las estructuras organizativas que surgieron de Continue reading
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
