Colombia’s New Urban Order

Colombia’s New Urban Order

Last year Sérgio Cabral, governor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro State, praised the Colombian government’s success in reducing violence in ...
Autocracy: An Invisible Dictatorship

Autocracy: An Invisible Dictatorship

In the name of free enterprise, freeways, and the freedom to buy, city air has been made unbreathable. The car ...
Meet the Future in the Past

Meet the Future in the Past

Mexico City and Los Angeles should look to one another. Mexico City needs LA's technology, LA's space, LA's respect for ...
Taking Note

Taking Note

One Woman Against State-Sponsored Terror On November 11, 1994, U.S. citizen Jennifer Harbury called off her 32-day hunger strike. In ...
Reviews

Reviews

Social Struggles and the City: The Case of Sio Paulo Edited by LOcio Kowarick, Monthly Review Press, 1994, 269 pp., ...
Haiti's Second U.S. Occupation

Haiti’s Second U.S. Occupation

The date was October 15, 1994, 60 years after the end of the first U.S. occupation of Haiti. Exiled President ...
URBAN LATIN AMERICA Life in the Megacity

URBAN LATIN AMERICA Life in the Megacity

"Those who know about ancient Greece," says Eduardo Galeano in his essay on the auto-centered city, "say the city was ...
Buenos Aires: A City Tries to Recognize Itself

Buenos Aires: A City Tries to Recognize Itself

By leaving all of Buenos Aires' projects half-finished, the current crisis has begun consolidating fragments: pieces of the future like ...