Today, urban dialogues becomes Engaging Urban.
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One of those days: A bamboo bridge in Davao City, Philippines
Four community associations from Davao City, in Barangay 74-A, make up a collective network called the Matina Crossing Communities Federation Inc (BMFCI). Mainly, they live along the Pangi River, which floods regularly destroying locally made bridges and blocking people’s way to get around their neighbourhood and access the rest of the city, more importantly schools, hospitals and often, their workplace.
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What is city?
Yet in this case the space is shared by many and is a very dense, urban slum, yet there is hardly any need for ‘design’ seeing as people have taken design in to their own hands in a highly organised way.
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Moving Layers of Manila
Whatever lies beneath the ground remains unknown to me, although I sometimes get a glimpse of it as I pass over open drains or sinking tarmac.
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Being a part of the Show: Bristol, UK
Amanda Burden, New York’s chief city planner, also known for the important role she played in advocating to save the NY High Line from demolition says: “…a successful city is like a fabulous party, people stay because they are having a fabulous time.”
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Whose space is it? Bogotá, Colombia
(Leer en Español…) So I’m actually one of those people who defend the role of the public sector and speaks with a lot of scepticism about the private sector in the making of cities. Have you ever heard of gentrification? Don’t get me started… I don’t know about you, but the way things are going…
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Re-imagining spaces in the city: Clear out or collaborate?
(Leer en Español….) Somewhere today, on the streets of northern Bogotá, Jhonatan sells what Colombians know as ‘arepas’. They are delicious maize pancake-like things that are split through the middle and stuffed with cheese, ham and scrambled eggs, at your command. They are usually quite cheap, no more than $3,000 COL ($1.00 USD), depending on what…
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