Description
The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world’s stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the mid 20th century when economic growth triggered the development of Modernist urban design and architecture on an epic scale. Since then the centralised, utopian planned model has broken down. Mass migrations from the countryside and erection of informal settlements have left cities socially and spatially divided. Within this context and in the mist of globalization Latin America is set to go though major change once again.
In recent decades, resourceful governments and practices have developed innovative approaches to urban design and development, less to do with the utopian and totalitarian schemes and more to do with “urban acupuncture
Contributors include: Saskia Sassen Hernando de Soto Ricky Burdett and Bogotá ex-mayor Enrique Peñalosa.
Featured architects: Teddy Cruz UTT-Urban Think-Tank Jorge Jauregui Alejandro Echeverri MMBB and Alejandro Aravena.
152 pages color ills / 21 x 275 cm / English
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