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From Product to Process: Building on Urban‐Think Tank’s Approach to the Informal City
Author(s) -
Brillembourg Alfredo,
NavarroSertich Adriana
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1247
Subject(s) - informal settlements , latin americans , work (physics) , architecture , human settlement , product (mathematics) , sociology , economic growth , political science , public administration , engineering , law , history , archaeology , economics , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics
Adriana Navarro‐Sertich interviews a pioneer of the informal in architecture, co‐founder and co‐director of Urban‐Think Tank (U‐TT) Alfredo Brillembourg . Brillembourg explains how U‐TT's work seeks to connect informal settlements with the formal city, enabling inhabitants to access services and infrastructure. U‐TT is now taking the lessons it has learnt in working in Latin American cities, such as Caracas and São Paulo, elsewhere in the world with the aim of ‘working globally and acting locally’. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.