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"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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Architecture and society, Cities and towns, Growth, City dwellers, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Cities and towns, latin america, Architecture and society--history, Architecture and society--latin america--history--21st century, Cities and towns--growth, Cities and towns--latin america--growth, City dwellers--political aspects, City dwellers--political aspects--latin america, Political science / public policy / city planning & urban development, Architecture / urban & land use planning, Na2543.s6 m39 2014, 720.1/03098, Pol002000 arc010000Places
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Radical cities: across Latin America in search of a new architecture
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