E-Book · 52 Ways to Respond the Pandemic Intersecting in One Book
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....
EVENT SUMMARY · Latin American Dissertation Seminar Series · First Panel
February 4, 2021 A series of seminars featuring research on Latin America, being advanced as part of the doctoral work of students at The New School’s Public and Urban Policy (PUP) doctoral program. This first panel featured work from: Dr. Lena SimetIntra-Urban...
Online: Digital City: Emerging Territories and Unfulfilled Rights
The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) and the Ministerio Público de la Defensa de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (MPD CABA) invite to the presentation Digital City: Emerging Territories and Unfulfilled Rights. The digital space, constitutes a kind of...
The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights an Observatory on Latin America (OLA) research study on Villa 20 and COVID-19
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...
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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.