Facing Risk provides answers to some dilemmas faced by the sustainable development agenda established by the international community.
This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. It argues that evaluating the fulfillment of past commitments is essential for framing and meeting the new commitments that were taken in Habitat III over the next 20 years.
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?
Screening and discussion with filmmakers of a documentary that looks at the transformation over time of an illegal squatter settlement.
Call to present a discussion note and invites for webinar.
Call to present a discussion note and invites for webinar.
This bilingual publication (Spanish and English) identifies and analyzes claims published on a selection of digital platforms by individuals and social groups from the most vulnerable neighbourhoods located south of Buenos Aires city.
Following 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.
Towards a New Urban Practice marks this moment as a point of reflection. Using the programme as an archive, the book reflects on questions of contemporary urban knowledge, interdisciplinary and. southern urban pedagogy
This book surveys infrastructure policies and performance over several decades, drawing on global and national lessons of COVID-19 and extensive working experience in 55 countries.
He will present on “Shifts in the Urban Spatial Structure of Large Urban Regions and Their Implications for Urban Planning and Policy.”
This event will bring together researchers from Latin America, North America, and Europe to discuss the main contemporary urban challenges. Over two days of conferences and thematic panels, topics such as urban development, planning, inequalities, low-income housing, urban violence, and urban neoliberalism will be addressed.