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
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
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
One Woman Against State-Sponsored Terror On November 11, 1994, U.S. citizen Jennifer Harbury called off her 32-day hunger strike. In ...
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
"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
By leaving all of Buenos Aires' projects half-finished, the current crisis has begun consolidating fragments: pieces of the future like ...