Latin America at the crossroads /

Simultaneous territories: unveiling the geographies of Latin American cities / Patricio del Real -- PREVI-Lima's time: positioning Proyecto experimento de vivienda in Peru's modern project / Sharif S. Kahatt -- The experimental housing project (PREVI), Lima: the making of a neighbourhood / Fernando Garc�ia-Huidobro, Diego Torres Torriti and Nicol�as Tugas -- Elemental: a do tank / Alejandro Aravena -- Tlacolula social housing, Oaxaca, Mexico / Dellekamp Arquitectos -- Governing change: the metropolitan revolution in Latin America / Ricky Burdett and Adam Kaasa -- The Olympic Games and the production of the public realm: Mexico City 1968 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 / Fernanda Canales -- Articulating the broken city and society / Jorge Mario J�auregui -- Formalisation: an interview with Hernando de Soto / Angus Laurie -- Playgrounds: radical failure in the Amazon / Gary Leggett -- Urban responses to climate change in Latin America: reasons, challenges and opportunities / Patricia Romero-Lankao -- Filling the voids with popular imaginaries / Fernando de Mello Franco -- Civic building: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos (FGMF), S�ao Paulo / FGMF -- A city talks: learning from Bogat�a's revitalisation / Enrique Pe�nalosa -- Bogot�a and Medell�in: architecture and politics / Lorenzo Castro and Alejandro Echeverri -- From product to process: building on urban-think tank's approach to the informal city / Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg by Adriana Navarro-Sertich -- Latin American meander: in search of a new civic imagination / Teddy Cruz -- Supersudaca's Asia stories (AKA at home on the first, second, third, fourth and fifth worlds) / Supersudaca -- When cities become strategic / Saskia Sassen -- Organising communities for interdependent growth / Enrique Martin-Moreno -- Universities as mediators: the cases of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico and S�ao Paulo / Mariana Legu�ia -- Counterpoint: Looking beyond informality / Daniela Fabricius..

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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.....