Event Summary · Seminar “A Green New Deal to Latin America: challenges to Brazil”
This month Jaques Wagner, current Brazilian Senator and former Governor of the state of Bahia, joined Stephanie Kelton, Senior Economic Advisor to the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, and Randall Wray, Senior Scholar at the Levy Institute, and Daniel Aldana...
Event Summary · How Process Affects Outcomes: Slum upgrading in Buenos Aires
Slums are not homogeneous, and there are many diverse vested interests that exist in slums that challenge upgrading initiatives. All of these interests must be properly understood and brought into the planning process. The best way to do this is through negotiated...
Event Summary · Book Launch: Urban Policy in Latin America
On October 16th, 2019, the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) launched this recently published book that evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. The book is organized...
Implementing the NUA and SDG: Buenos Aires Case Study in Comparative Perspective
The Observatory on Latin America is engaged with the Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) organization, which links local interaction platforms from various cities around the world (Cape Town, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Sheffield-Manchester, Kisumu, Malmö, and via OLA, Buenos...Event summary · Workshop on Integration, Participation and Sustainable Development Goals, in Buenos Aires
October 26th, 2018 | Instituto de Vivienda · Buenos Aires Observatory on Latin America (OLA) and Instituto de Vivienda (IVC) Preliminary findings of two research projects of the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) were presented and discussed on October 26, 2018 at a...
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Futures of the Past · Second Panel Discussion
OnlineIn this second discussion on the history of the future, academics from the Temporalidades del Futuro group: Lorena López, José Francisco Hernández, Lasse Hölck and Stefan Rinke, will participate: Comments will be offered by Martín Groisman and Margarita Gutman.
Launch of the book La vulnerabilidad ante la incertidumbre
OnlineLaunch of the book Vulnerability to Uncertainty. The situation of the child and adolescent population in Paraguay during the COVID-19 pandemic. (La vulnerabilidad ante la incertidumbre. La situación de la población infantil y adolescente en Paraguay durante la pandemia de COVID-19.)
ONLINE · Inclusión y tensiones en la cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo. Dilemas de la integración socio espacial en Buenos Aires
OnlineFollowing the interdisciplinary tradition of urban studies, the authors of this book articulate knowledge related to social dynamics, typical of the social and anthropological sciences, with that knowledge enunciated by the design disciplines that deal with urban material space.