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It is all too easy to be optimistic about the economic and social future of Latin America. Daniela Fabricius, the author of 100% Favela: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janeiro (forthcoming), calls into question architects working within the realpolitik of a globalised, post‐nationalist world. Could an all too ready acceptance of existing conditions and the adoption of informality leave inhabitants short‐changed? For to live informally is also to live precariously ‐ no substitute for secure and prosperous living.
It is all too easy to be optimistic about the economic and social future of Latin America. Daniela Fabricius, the author of 100% Favela: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janeiro (forthcoming), calls into question architects working within the realpolitik of a globalised, post‐nationalist world. Could an all too ready acceptance of existing conditions and the adoption of informality leave inhabitants short‐changed? For to live informally is also to live precariously ‐ no substitute for secure and prosperous living.
Looking Beyond Informality
Fabricius, Daniela (author)
Architectural Design ; 81 ; 144-149
2011-05-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Washington Consensus , Jaime Lerner , The New York Times , Curitiba , micro‐financing , Medellín , global BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) , Ulrich Beck , ‘partial utopias’ , 1965 Master Plan , ‘wageless life’ , Hannah Arendt , macro‐scale plan , nationalist leftist governments , ‘risk society’ , invasive ‘urban surgery’ , counter‐Modernist approach , Keith Hart , centralised urban government initiative , one billion slum dwellers , international Modernism , ‘world risk society’ , World Cup in 2014 , ‘aporia of human rights’ , Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016 , informal economy , drug and police violence , Le Corbusier , ‘urban acupuncture’ , ‘radical pragmatism’ , post‐nationalist world , multistory concrete buildings , micro‐structural programmes , International Labour Organization (ILO)
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