Hortaleza, a small village in the North-East of Madrid was absorbed by the expansion of the city in the 1960s. We studied the morphological changes experienced by the historic center of Hortaleza in Madrid, providing insights for local conservation policies. It was led by the urban design and planning office Paisaje Transversal and commissioned by […]
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 […]