Currently, Latin American cities are seeing simultaneous processes of reinvestment and redevelopment in their historic central areas. These are not just mega-scale interventions like Porto Maravilha in Rio or Puerto Madero ...

The city of Santiago (Chile) shows signifi cant differences in the distribution of air temperatures within the city due to a set of explanatory factors, such as increased proportions of impermeable surfaces and a reduction ...

A process of urban metamorphosis is under way in many inner-city neighbourhoods across Latin America. The theoretical framework of new-build gentrification reveals the multiple dimensions of this process, which seems to ...

Today it is a revolution to talk about totality, —we refer to this concept as the quality of the total, the integrally thing— in such a fragmented world. Where are the teachings of Vitruvius of considering many things: ...