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Radical cities : across Latin America in search of a new architecture / Justin McGuirk.

By: McGuirk, Justin Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Verso; 2014Description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9781781682807 (hardback)Subject(s): Architecture and society -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century | Cities and towns -- Latin America -- Growth | City dwellers -- Political aspects -- Latin America | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development | ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use PlanningDDC classification: 720.103098 LOC classification: NA2543.S6 | M39 2014Other classification: POL002000 | ARC010000 Online resources: Cover image

Contents:

From Buenos Aires to San Salvador de Jujuy : Dictators and Revolutionaries -- From Lima to Santiago : A Platform for Change -- Rio de Janeiro : The Favela Is the City -- Caracas : The City Is Frozen Politics -- Torre David : A Pirate Utopia -- Bogotá : The City as a School -- Medellín : Social Urbanism -- Tijuana : On the Political Equator.

Summary: "In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities. From Chile to Brazil, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers people who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radically new ways. After decades of political and architectural failure, a new generation has returned to the problems of the city to address the poverty and inequality. This is a generation of activists, pragmatists and social idealists, and together they are testing new ideas that the rest of the world can learn from. An architect in Chile has designed a new form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, the murder capital of Colombia, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over a 45-story skyscraper, Torre David; and architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui has upgraded Rio's favelas in exciting new ways"--

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Item type	Current location	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	School of Art Design and Architecture (SADA)	School of Art Design and Architecture (SADA)	720.103098 MCG 2014 (Browse shelf)	01	Available		SADA0002409

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities. From Chile to Brazil, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers people who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radically new ways. After decades of political and architectural failure, a new generation has returned to the problems of the city to address the poverty and inequality. This is a generation of activists, pragmatists and social idealists, and together they are testing new ideas that the rest of the world can learn from. An architect in Chile has designed a new form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, the murder capital of Colombia, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over a 45-story skyscraper, Torre David; and architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui has upgraded Rio's favelas in exciting new ways"--

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