Short essay written in the book The Social Dimension of Social Housing, edited by Simon Güntner, Juma Hauser, Judith M. Lehner and Christoph Reinprecht in 2023, Spektor Books. All essays and case studies are based on the work developed in the summer schools co-organised by IBA Reseach Lab, the Research Center for New Social Housing […]
The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (OHB) has several research laboratories that analyse housing trends in the metropolitan region of the city. The Renovation Lab develops research on the potential for housing renovation, including how the housing stock could be increased through renovation and retrofitting initiatives. This lab analyses cadaster and licenses data to visualise and […]
Lima experienced an explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the public sector nor the private housing market provided decent […]
Housing; self-built; urban policies; Latin America; PREVI; Favela Bairro; Quinta Monroy Article published in Atlantis magazine #28.4, student magazine of the urbanism department at TU Delft University Latin America is today the most heavily urbanized region in the world (UN Habitat, 2016). Centralization of services, economic and political crises, conflicts and violence, among other reasons, […]
Social housing; Lima; urban planning; university workshop; urban strategies Book co-edited with Luis Rodríguez Rivero in the framework of the international workshop Limápolis 2016 in the PUCP University in Peru. The book has two parts. The first includes the work developed by groups of students in the workshop of 2016 to develop new ideas for […]
International workshop on social housing developed at the PUCP university in Lima. The workshop had three parts, including a series of conferences and presentations by experts, a seminar on social housing policy, and a design studio, in which students, guided by experts, developed design proposal for specific areas in the Ate neighborhood in Lima. The […]
Commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation in Peru, the research group Conurb developed in 2015 a study of the housing context in the capital, as well as a social housing policy proposal. The proposal combined current policy instruments and programs with an urban approach that would benefit the consolidation and urban regeneration […]
The municipality of Lima developed in 2014 the strategic urban plan for the metropolitan area of Lima and Callao. Based on the previous plans, it developed a set of policy tools and guidelines to foster a sustainable and inclusive spatial development of the city. The plan was coordinated by the Metropolitan Planning Institute (IMP) and […]