The Observatory on Latin America of The New School is pleased to announce the release of an E-book, Intersecting, a substantial collection of short essays and photographs about how infrastructure is key in building resilient societies and addressing future pandemics....
On October 29, to commemorate World Cities Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) presented summaries of 15 cases of city responses around the world worthy of global attention. One of these cases was the case of Villa 20 in Buenos Aires, a slum community of about...
The Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) have partnered to implement the research study “Villa 20 and COVID-19: The benefits of building social capital in the informal...
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, billions of public monies are poured into high tech solutions for controlling its spread: research and development of vaccines, treatment and diagnostics, apps for contact tracing and tracking contagion, and more. Less attention is...
Article on OLA Fellow Juan Gonzalez’s online course. Click here to view “Just months after the COVID-19 outbreak, Open Campus students are learning to apply lessons from the pandemic to drive change in their communities. Two current summer courses explore...
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