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

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

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