| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Part I. Introduction. Where we stand on urban inequality -- Mitigating territorial inequality through public space -- How much public space is needed? -- Formal and programmatic strategies to build public space in spontaneous settlements -- Funding strategies for spontaneous settlement projects -- Social strategies to strengthen public space projects in spontaneous settlements -- CODA -- Part II - Case studies. Conservation. Linear parks along Estero Salado, Guayaquil, Ecuador -- National Park Babilônia and Chapéu Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Urban agriculture along the Rimac River, Lima, Peru -- Waste management. Moravia Ecological Park, Medellín, Columbia -- Plaza La Cruz, La Palomera, Caracas, Venezuela -- Risk management. El Guasmo Beach, floodable park, Guayaquil, Ecuador -- Safety plazas in Santa María El Triunfo, Lima Peru -- Recovery of the Juan Bobo Creek, Medellín, Colombia -- Infrastructure. Northeast metrocable parks Comuna 1, La Popular, Medellín, Columbia -- Barrio Las Independencias escalators and walkways, Medellín, Colombia -- Funicular in Dona Marta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Ecotecnia Urbana Miravalle, Mexico City, Mexico -- Pavement, paths and the space surrounding buildings. Pavement, paths and stairs Cerro Santo Domingo and Cerro Toro, Valparaíso, Chile -- Cerro Santa Ana urban rehabilitation, Guayaquil, Ecuador -- Fernando Botero Library, Medellín, Colombia -- Moravia Cultural Center, Medellín, Colombia -- Espaço Criança and community programs, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Plaza in Villa Tranquila, Buenos Aires, Argentina -- Activity. Casa Kolacho Comuna 13, Medellín, Colombia -- AfroReggae Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, |
| Summary |
This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation of project descriptions, photographs, and annotated drawings reflects a concern to analytically explain the operative aspects at work. The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices. It is intended, instead, as an empirical base for a critical and theoretical engagement with the problematic of development, social inclusion, public investment, (in)formal settlement, civil society and the public sphere. The publication achieves its final function at this third level, by providing a compelling argument to expand the agency of architects and urban designers and creatively find ways of justifying, financing, and building public spaces in communities - spaces that have a catalytic effectiveness in achieving significant urban and social transformation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Simultaneously published in Spanish as Puro espacio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Public spaces -- Latin America
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Squatter settlements -- Latin America
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City planning -- Latin America
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Architecture and society -- Latin America
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barriadas.
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Architecture and society
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City planning
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Public spaces
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Squatter settlements
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Corporación Andina de Fomento.
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| ISBN |
9781638409175 |
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163840917X |
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9781638409205 |
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163840920X |
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