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  • How Process Affects Outcomes: Slum upgrading in Buenos Aires

    Wolff Conference Room 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires (Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad, IVC) has launched an innovative slum upgrading program which uses participation as an instrument to achieve socio-economic integration and to reduce inequality. The following questions will be discussed: Which are the costs and benefits of participation? How process-projects can contribute to reducing social exclusion? What are the conditions to enable sustainability?

  • Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America

    Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, room l203, 2nd floor 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world’s most unequal region. It explores how the gap between ...