08
Dec
How does one attempt to improve the lives of the homeless in one of the world's largest city? A group of young Mexicans has an interesting solution. Read more
All posts in Latin America
AguaClara is a decade old engineering project started by professors at Cornell University that combines techniques that would have been familiar to the Romans and ones that would impress Elon Musk. Read more
03
Nov
Violence rates have increased markedly in Caracas. This ranks the city among the top five most dangerous in the world, not only for high homicide rates, robberies and kidnappings, but the hostility against minorities. Street art can play a part in addressing this. Read more
In-between spaces, perceived as frontiers and borders, are the spaces that divide territories within our cities, neighbourhoods and towns. In our minds, they are understood as "non-places", under-utilised spaces that are often associated with dirty, derelict and unsafe areas of the city. Read more
11
Sep
Is paradise a large metropolis? As city dwellers, we’re prone to believing that the good life is found on a desolate beach far from the cacophony of any urban environment. Cities, to their credit however, actually make us much happier than we might otherwise believe. Read more
19
Aug
One month ago, Bogotá launched the second corridor of its new city cycle hire scheme, adding 3 stations, 21 employees, and 55 bikes to their existing network. Read more
Caren Levy shares her reflections as a follow-up to the conference, Thinking Across Boundaries: Re-Imagining Planning in the Urban Global South as part of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit 60 year anniversary. Read more
Caracas, capital of Venezuela, lies in a narrow mountain valley surrounded by popular areas that define its hillsides. It is a crowded city with a population of more than 5 million people and 1 million cars. Read more