Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], part 2>> initial design + intent

Following the post written by Nathalie Jolivert reporting – two years after its construction-on the first housing pilot project in the first and Continue reading →

The New Vistas Controversy, The Cost of the Status Quo

GUEST POST by Ralph Spencer Steenblik NewVistas is a holistic masterplanned community designed by the foundation bearing the same name, and 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 →

Gobernability, Urban Development and Environment

Post by Marines Pocaterra Global urban acceleration process has joined multiple problems as the incidence in global warming and the Continue reading →

Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], 2 years later

Credits for photograph above: Claude André Nadon With a unique opportunity to hear an outsider’s perspective on the interventions and their impact 2 and Continue reading →

Planning Failure, Ecological Failure

  The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer Continue reading →

ECUADOR: [re]learning from reconstruction/ lecciones de reconstruction

Photograph above: Rebuilding in Port au Prince, source Claude Andre Nadon/UNOPS For this post I want to reference an article Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture, Technological Entrapment, and the Pioneering Spirit

How informal urbanism affects the way we think about formal urbanism is one of the crucial questions we ask here Continue reading →