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....
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...
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...
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...