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3 | WORK FALL 09 PUBLICS WORKS According to Mike Davis (2000), the dystopian "‘cold’ frozen geometries” of US cities are being countered by Latino populations offering “a ‘hotter’, more exuberant urbanism” that is “tropicalizing” the city with colors, smells and new public spaces. Yet, in Mexico, debates about public space draw deeply pessimistic observations of a growing commodification and ‘globalization’. Maria Moreno-Carranco takes a different perspective. Drawing from the “Megaproject” of Santa Fe in Mexico City, the largest urban development projects in Latin America. Through examining everyday practices she shows how urban spaces have been renegotiated and reframed. Although pubpartially privatized, appropriation through everyday practices opens spaces to the possibility of transformation and subversion of their intended use. Everyday contestation reveals “the local production of the global”. -> Text -> Images Contents 01. WORK REVIEW 02. PUBLICS WORKS 03. ISOLATED BUILDINGS 04. WAYFINDING 05. LAYOFF MOVEON 06. MONDRAGON 07. WORKPLACE 08. A CITY AT WORK 09. EMPTY 10. FARMER'S WORK DOWNLOAD ISSUE 3 ORDER A COPY OF ISSUE 3 |
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