Our role in regenerating cities

There is a group of guidelines being proposed for legacy cities in North America. Referring to cities that have experienced Continue reading →

Urban Informal Expressions III: Guerrilla Bikelanes

In past posts I discussed Guerrilla Gardening and Urban Knitting as forms of Urban Informal Expressions. In this post I present another form Continue reading →

L.A. Street Vending in 2050

Los Angeles street vending advocates have reached a new financial milestone with help from the Goldhirsh Foundation and the thousands Continue reading →

How to market ideology

Post by Marines Pocaterra The urban fabric densifies constantly increasing the accessibility requirements. Focusing on self-constructed urban tissue (favelas or Continue reading →

Passinho and Pacification

As I listened to a Youtube video of a Passinho battle, with it’s rough and heavy funke soundtrack, something perfectly Continue reading →

Medellin’s transformation :: a book

I wanted to share a very interesting link to a book edited by Gerard Martin on the transformation of Medellin. Continue reading →

Urban development and social inclusion. The CAF award

Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas This week the CAF announced the results of the second international Continue reading →

Economic Efficiency or Urban Quality of Life?

“Paving Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects” is an economics paper published last month by Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Continue reading →