Latin America at the Crossroads

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Guest-editor Mariana Leguía The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world's stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the mid 20th century when economic growth triggered the development of Modernist urban design and architecture on an epic scale. Since then the centralised, utopian planned model has broken down. Mass migrations from the countryside and erection of informal settlements have left cities socially and spatially divided. Within this context and in the mist of globalization Latin America is set to go though major change once again.In recent decades, resourceful governments and practices have developed innovative approaches to urban design and development, less to do with the utopian and totalitarian schemes and more to do with "urban acupuncture", working within rather than denying the framework of informality to stitch together disparate parts of the city.This title of AD will explore the current urban issues faced by Latin American cities and the response of alternative local practitioners at different scales. Large-scale urban case studies, such as the revitalisation of Bogotá and Medellin, will be featured alongside architectural practices, research-based organisations and university studios working at a grass-roots level. Contributors include: Saskia Sassen, Hernando de Soto, Ricky Burdett and Bogotá ex-mayor Enrique Peñalosa.Featured architects: Teddy Cruz, UTT-Urban Think-Tank, Jorge Jauregui, Alejandro Echeverri, MMBB and Alejandro Aravena.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-18
Mått:208 x 274 x 10 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Architectural Design
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780470664926

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Mariana Leguía is a Peruvian-British architect and urban designer. She studied architecture and urbanism at Ricardo Palma University in Peru and at SCI-ARC in California. She has an MSc from the Cities programme at the London School of Economics, where she was awarded a full scholarship. She has taught and lectured in universities in Peru and the UK. Currently, with the support of Australian funding, she is working on the reconstruction of the neighbourhood of Pisco devastated by the 2007 Peru earthquake. Her work has been published and exhibited in Latin American biennales and architectural magazines. She has worked as an urban designer on projects in Latin America, London, Russia and the Middle East.

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Editorial 5Helen CastleAbout the Guest-Editor 6Mariana LeguíaIntroduction 8Latin America at the CrossroadsMariana LeguíaSimultaneous Territories: Unveiling the Geographies of Latin American Cities 16Patricio del RealPREVI-Lima's Time: Positioning Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda in Peru's Modern Project 22Sharif S KahattThe Experimental Housing Project (PREVI), Lima: The Making of a Neighbourhood 26Torriti and Nicolás TugasElemental: A Do Tank 32Alejandro AravenaTlacolula Social Housing, Oaxaca, Mexico 38Dellekamp ArquitectosGoverning Change: The Metropolitan Revolution in Latin America 42Ricky Burdett and Adam KaasaThe Olympic Games and the Production of the Public Realm: Mexico City 1968 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 52Fernanda CanalesArticulating the Broken City and Society 58Jorge Mario JáureguiFormalisation: An Interview with Hernando de Soto 64Angus LauriePlaygrounds: Radical Failure in the Amazon 68Gary LeggettUrban Responses to Climate Change in Latin America: Reasons, Challenges and Opportunities 76Patricia Romero-LankaoFilling the Voids with Popular Imaginaries 80Patricia Romero-LankaoCivic Building: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos (FGMF), São Paulo 86FGMFA City Talks: Learning from Bogotá's Revitalisation 90Enrique PeñalosaBogotá and Medellín: Architecture and Politics 96Lorenzo Castro and Alejandro EcheverriFrom Product to Process: Building on Urban-Think Tank's Approach to the Informal City – Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg 104Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg by Adriana Navarro-SertichLatin American Meander: In Search of a New Civic Imagination 110Teddy CruzSupersudaca's Asia Stories (AKA at Home in the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Worlds) 118SupersudacaWhen Cities Become Strategic 124Saskia SassenOrganising Communities for Interdependent Growth 128Enrique Martin-MorenoUniversities as Mediators: The Cases of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico and São Paulo 134Mariana LeguíaCounterpoint 144Looking Beyond InformalityDaniela Fabricius