Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

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; MedellÃn, formerly the worldâ€™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 Americaâ€”a crucible of architectural and urban innovation.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 8 pages of colour photos
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-10-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781781688687

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	8 pages of colour photos
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781781688687

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

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