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 […]
Informality; Global South; segregation; spatial justice; urban morphology Journal Paper co-authored with Birgit Hausleitner and Marcin Dąbrowski, published in Urban Planning Vol 5, No 3 (2020): Cities of Inclusion—Spaces of Justice Abstract: Planning practice in the Global South often defines a border between formal and informal developments ignoring the complex and nuanced reality of urban […]
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 […]
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 […]
Transit Oriented Development study commissioned by the World Bank to assess the potential for urban regeneration processes after the implementation of metro L2 in the Ate – Santa Anita corridor, in the East of Lima. The study comprised three aspects, including urban mobility, sustainability and citizens participation, and focused in the last four stations of […]
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 […]
Implemented by the Municipality of Lima between 2012 and 2014, Barrio Mío aimed regenerating vulnerable areas of the city through infrastructure projects and support to community-led initiatives. The program implemented risk-mitigation infrastructure, such as contention walls and improved access to slopes, developed participatory strategic plans to stir public investment, and coordinated the deployment of municipal […]
Basic Habitat Conditions program financed by AECID and implemented by NGO CESAL under the agreement to “enhance the living conditions of people living in vulnerable areas, through fostering spatial planning instruments, specifically on habitat conditions, water and sewage, construction and improving of existing infrastructures”. I worked as a junior architect in the team between 2011 […]