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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
MARCH/APRIL 2011
PROFILE NO 210
GUEST-EDITED BY
NEIL SPILLER AND RACHEL ARMSTRONG
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ARCHTECTURE
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MAY/JUNE 2011 — PROFILE NO 211
LATIN AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS
GUEST-EDITOR MARIANA LEGUÍA
The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the
world’s stage. Now, for the fi rst time since the mid-20th century when Modernist urban design was
undertaken on an epic scale, Latin America is the centre of international attention and architectural
pilgrimage. The mass migrations from the countryside and the erection of informal settlements in the
late 20th century left cities socially and spatially divided. As a response, in recent decades resourceful
governments and practices have developed innovative approaches to urban design and development
that are less to do with utopian and totalitarian schemes and more to do with urban acupuncture,
working within, rather than opposing, informality to stitch together disparate parts of the city. Once
a blind spot in cities’ representation, informality is now considered an asset to be understood and
incorporated. Today, more than 50 per cent of the world´s population live in cities for the fi rst time
in human history, and an increasing amount in slums. As a result of globalisation, Latin America is
now once again set to go through major change. The solutions presented in this issue represent the
vanguard in mitigating strong social and spatial divisions in cities across the globe.
• Contributors include: Saskia Sassen, Hernando de Soto, Ricky Burdett and the former mayor
of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa.
• Featured architects: Teddy Cruz, Urban-Think Tank, Jorge Jáuregui, Alejandro Echeverri,
Volume No MMBB and Alejandro Aravena.
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• Covers large-scale urban case studies, such as the revitalisation of Bogotá and Medellín.
JULY/AUGUST 2011 —