Improving Informal Settlements: Ideas from Latin America
28: Can Designers Improve Life in Non-Formal Cities?
America’s design culture has shifted toward efforts to improve social and environmental conditions. Helping the disadvantaged entails risks of top-down power relationships and the ignorance of outsiders. To avoid this, designers in this issue have worked at small scales in collaboration with the people affected by their projects. The need for attention to the urban poor is increasing drastically with both relentless Third World urbanization and a lack of adequate land and housing for the one-billion additional slum dwellers projected to exist by 2020.
Articles
Table of Contents
Essay
Beyond the ADA
Thomas Spector
Border Crossings: Estudio Teddy Cruz
John Beardsley
Can Good Design Advance Urban Development? On the Harvard Design Magazine Symposium “Can Design Improve Life in Cities? The Cases of Los Angeles, London, and Chicago”
Timothy Love
Contemporary Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed
Robert Levit
Designing Process: Flavio Janches and Max Rohm
John Beardsley
Director Medvedow, PUT BACK THAT SCREEN!!!: ICA/Boston
Jeffrey Kipnis
Dirty Water: The Guarapiranga Water Reservoir, Parque Amelia, Watery Voids: MMBB
Christian Werthmann
Equalizing Mobility: TransMilenio Bus System: Cictorutas and Ciclovia: Alameda El Porvenir; Usme: City of Bogotá
John Beardsley
Evangelical Architecture: Megachurch Images
Myev Rees, Peter W. Williams
Improving Informal Settlements: Ideas from Latin America
Christian Werthmann, John Beardsley
Instant Cities, Instant Architecture, and Incremental Metropolitanism
Ellen Dunham-Jones, June Williamson
Interventions for the Socio-Urban Integration of the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Maria Lúcia (Lu) Peterson
It Takes Three: The “People,” Businessmen, and Government Officials. To Use Mexico City’s Left-Over Spaces for Social Inclusion
Enrique Martin-Moreno C.
Kibera Public Space Project by Kounkuey Design Initiative: Co-Designing Productive Parks with the Poorest of Kibera, Kenya. GSD Graduates Help a Nairobi Community
John Gendall
Lake Ecologies: El Caracol: José Castillo, Architecture 911
John Beardsley
Making History: The Favela Bairro Program and More
Christian Werthmann
Peripatetic Invisibility, or, Not Enough Ado about Nothing: ICA/Boston
Sylvia Lavin
Resisting Representation: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janeiro
Daniela Fabricius
The Social Functions of NIMBYism
Matthew J. Kiefer
The Solution is Not Architectural: Housing Problems of the Poor in Tijuana
Tito Alegría
Urban Acupuncture: Urban Think Tank
John Beardsley
Urban Connectors. Fostering the Integration of Formal and Informal Settlements
David Gouverneur, Oscar Grauer
Urban Peripheries, Invention, and Citizenship
James Holston, Teresa Pires do Rio Caldeira
Review
Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism by Felicity D. Scott
Keller Easterling
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Joan Ockman
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer
Daniel Naegele
Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design, and City Theory by Grahame Shane
Thomas Bender
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Daniel Naegele
The Culture of Building by Howard Davis
Daniel Willis
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted Volume 7: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874-1882 edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Carolyn F. Hoffman, and Kenneth Hawkins
John Dixon Hunt