Archive for the 'Latin America' Category

Revisioning slums

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

If, for the better part of the 20th century, it was New York and its glistening imitations that symbolised the future, it is now the stacked-up, sprawling, impromptu city-countries of the third world. The idea of the total, centralised, maximally efficient city plan has long since lost its futuristic appeal: its confidence and ambition have […]

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Bifurcaciones

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Revista de estudios culturales urbanos - Worth learning Spanish for. The quality of material coming out of Chile and Argentina is peerless at the present time. Other key names include Buenos Aires journals such as Punto de Vista, and Prismas and writers such as Beatriz Sarlo and Adrián Gorelik and artists exhibited in […]

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International journal & weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds.