Latin Lab

09/23/2015

Join us at Imprecise Tropics : Camilo Restrepo in Conversation, an event part of GSAPP Core Series.

Camilo Restrepo Ochoa (architect from Colombia and Design Critic in Architecture at GSD - Harvard University) will be discussing his publication and work Imprecise Tropics with Barry Bergdoll, Columbia Art History, and Latin Lab Founder Clara Irazábal, GSAPP.

This event will take place Friday September 25th, 1:00 pm at Wood Auditorium - Avery Hall, Columbia University.

Coffee and snacks will be served.

http://events.gsapp.org/event/imprecise-tropics-camilo-restrepo-in-conversation

06/16/2015

Join us at the next AIANY Global Dialogues Soap Box: Politics, Policy and Arhcitecture moderated by Gennie Birch (Co-Director, PennIUR) and with Rafi Segal ( MIT ), Damon Rich ( Harvard University), Quilian Aquino ( Parsons School of Design ) and Alejandro de Castro Mazarro ( Columbia University in the City of New York ).

This event will take place Wednesday, June 17th 6>30 at 536 La Guardia Place

04/01/2015

Urban Demcoracy Lab of NYU is hosting next monday a talk with former Mayor of Bogota Antanas Mokus about "The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship Culture and the Future of Cities". See details below:
http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/the-right-to-have-rights-citizenship-culture-and-the-future-of-cities-distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-antanas-mockus/

The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 1 Washington Place @ Broadway Between 1994 and 2002, Bogotá, Colombia, was the site of a grand social...

03/31/2015

'Modernization Takes Command? Latin American Cities During the Cold War. A taller urbanos de las americas conference' will take place tomorrow at NYU. Please find more information in this link: https://modernizationtakescommandsymposium.wordpress.com/

A taller urbano de las américas conference / Sponsors: NYU (History), UConn (History & El Instituto), Purchase College SUNY (Latin American Studies & Casa Purchase)

03/30/2015

As you may know Caribbean Urban Forum will be held in St. Lucia 10-12 June 2015. Tomorrow is the deadline of the CUF5 Call of Papers and Exhibitors. Please send any queries to [email protected]
http://bluespacecaribbean.com/cuf/cuf5/.

“Island Systems Planning” The Saint Lucia Institute of Land Use Planners in collaboration with the Ministry of Physical ...

03/30/2015

The new issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association is about recovery from disasters edited by Karl Kim (University of Hawaii) and Robert Oshansky (University of Illinois). You can find also in this issue articles by William J. Siembieda and Mary C. Comerio from Chile. Enjoy!
https://www.planning.org/japa/

Since 1935, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policy makers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas.

03/26/2015

Urban Democracy Lab of NYU is hosting next tuesday a talk with Raquel Rolnik about "Urban Warfare: The Colonization of Urban Land and Housing". See details below:
http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-raquel-rolnik/

Urban Warfare: the Colonization of Urban Land and Housing Ms. Raquel Rolnik is an architect and an urban planner, with over 30 years of experience in planning and urban land management. She has ext...

03/20/2015

https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that…

03/13/2015

https://www.ted.com/talks/teddy_cruz_how_architectural_innovations_migrate_across_borders

As the world's cities undergo explosive growth, inequality is intensifying. Wealthy neighborhoods and impoverished slums grow side by side, the gap between them widening. In this eye-opening talk, architect Teddy Cruz asks us to rethink urban development from the bottom up. Sharing lessons from the…

03/07/2015

We always appreciate new high quality images of our cities. Enjoy these ones of Rio!

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/02/rio-de-janeiro-in-fantastically-high-definition/385499/

The Brazilian city like you've never seen it. Really.

03/06/2015

"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport," argues Enrique Peñalosa
https://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action

02/28/2015

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/02/the-science-of-cities-applies-to-ancient-mexico-too/385686/

New research suggests the social benefits of dense urban areas might follow timeless rules.