Canaima School, an oasis in La Vega

I cannot believe I have never written here about Canaima School. Maybe it is because something so beautiful do not Continue reading →

SOCIAL HOUSING/ MEXICO (article)

Caption image above: Unidad Independencia post-earthquake housing, Mexico; source: Architectural Review For this post, I wanted to share this article Continue reading →

Favela re-nomadizada I

[1] La organización espacial del sur-continente (de México a Argentina), ha sido explicada desde una perspectiva occidental; así, la historia Continue reading →

Slums: technologies of governance

Cities are understood to be bounded spaces of urban infrastructure inside a bordered national territory, however, in an ever-increasing integrated global Continue reading →

The Shift and The Push – how will all be housed?

THE SHIFT Last spring The municipality of Malmö signed up to The Shift. The Shift was initiated by the UN Continue reading →

(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 →

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 →

30 veces FAVELA. 16-30

Esta es la segunda parte de la historia de un hipertexto. Mi post número 16 aparece en el otoño de Continue reading →