Guerilla Suburbanism in the age of Covid-19
Guerilla Suburbanism is the adaptation, creative reuse, and/or reinvention of rural and suburban realities and conceptions.
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(In)Formality: beyond the plans
Every city around the globe faces questions of horizontal expansion at one time or another in its life – when Continue reading
Hot Showers for the Homeless?
iterative research process, designing a proto-architectural molecularly in-spired micro-bamboo system, followed by some case-study examples of ac-tualized instantiations of the system at scale.
Trans-Favela
[1] Desde el inicio de mi carrera como investigadora urbana, mi interés principal han sido los otros espacios de América Continue reading
Urban Informality, the New Orientalism?
(1) Part I, rough ideas: In a scholar sense we use the term “urban informality” to name the peripherical fabric Continue reading
The Help-Yourself City
I am reading a really interesting book by Gordon Douglas: “The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism .“ 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
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