Format:
152 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt
,
28 cm
ISBN:
9780470664926
Series Statement:
Architectural design 211
Content:
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
Note:
Simultaneous territories: unveiling the geographies of Latin American cities / Patricio del RealPREVI-Lima's time: positioning Proyecto experimento de vivienda in Peru's modern project / Sharif S. Kahatt -- The experimental housing project (PREVI), Lima: the making of a neighbourhood / Fernando García-Huidobro, Diego Torres Torriti and Nicolás Tugas -- Elemental: a do tank / Alejandro Aravena -- Tlacolula social housing, Oaxaca, Mexico / Dellekamp Arquitectos -- Governing change: the metropolitan revolution in Latin America / Ricky Burdett and Adam Kaasa -- The Olympic Games and the production of the public realm: Mexico City 1968 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 / Fernanda Canales -- Articulating the broken city and society / Jorge Mario Jáuregui -- Formalisation: an interview with Hernando de Soto / Angus Laurie -- Playgrounds: radical failure in the Amazon / Gary Leggett -- Urban responses to climate change in Latin America: reasons, challenges and opportunities / Patricia Romero-Lankao -- Filling the voids with popular imaginaries / Fernando de Mello Franco -- Civic building: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos (FGMF), São Paulo / FGMF -- A city talks: learning from Bogatá's revitalisation / Enrique Peñalosa -- Bogotá and Medellín: architecture and politics / Lorenzo Castro and Alejandro Echeverri -- From product to process: building on urban-think tank's approach to the informal city / Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg by Adriana Navarro-Sertich -- Latin American meander: in search of a new civic imagination / Teddy Cruz -- Supersudaca's Asia stories (AKA at home on the first, second, third, fourth and fifth worlds) / Supersudaca -- When cities become strategic / Saskia Sassen -- Organising communities for interdependent growth / Enrique Martin-Moreno -- Universities as mediators: the cases of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico and São Paulo / Mariana Leguía -- Counterpoint: Looking beyond informality / Daniela Fabricius.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Architektur
;
Städtebau
;
Geschichte 1980-2010
;
Aufsatzsammlung
