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Radical Cities - Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (Paperback)
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in
search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and
alternative communities already answering these questions. From
Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk
discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.
Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist
utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a
testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the city. An
architect in Chile has designed a form of social housing where only
half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest;
Medellin, formerly the world's murder capital, has been transformed
with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have
taken over the forty-five-story Torre David skyscraper; and Rio is
on a mission to incorporate its favelas into the rest of the city.
Here, in the most urbanised continent on the planet, extreme cities
have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to
sprawling slums. But after decades of social and political failure,
a new generation has revitalised architecture and urban design in
order to address persistent poverty and inequality. Together, these
activists, pragmatists and social idealists are performing bold
experiments that the rest of the world may learn from. Radical
Cities is a colorful journey through Latin America-a crucible of
architectural and urban innovation.
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