Urban Policy in Latin America: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
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...
How Process Affects Outcomes: Slum upgrading in Buenos Aires
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Event Summary · Book presentation at the Building a Resilient Future Conference
On September 22, 2019, the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) joined a pool of 450 changemakers at the Building a Resilient Future day-long event organized by the Global Resilience Partnership. The day after the event a headline message was put forward to the UN...
“Calle K”, documentary screening and discussion with filmmakers
Discussion with filmmakers: Titus Fossgard-Moser (Director) Caroline Moser (Social Anthropologist) ‘Calle K’ (2019) is a documentary film that looks at the transformation over time of an illegal squatter settlement. In 1978 Titus Fossgard-Moser lived with his brother...
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