... understanding of how to determine density. Finally, the paper reveals an opportunity to rethink the inner city toward new approaches to renovation developments. One of the problems afflicting modern cities, particularly in Latin America, is that density is not understood as a quantitative and qualitative tool...

...Belén Gesto; Guillermo Gómez; Julián Salas While the illegal occupation of land by families lacking the means to acquire housing on the market is hardly front page news in Latin America, it may not merit the silence to which it has been relegated of late. The authors, who formed part of a research...

... elements, rather than huge three-dimensional members. In the situation presently prevailing in Latin America, the viability of some of the technological proposals deployed in the PREVI might be profitably revisited. Julián Salas and Patricia Lucas THE VALIDITY OF PREVI, LIMA, PERU, FORTY YEARS ON. open...

...Julián Salas Serrano This paper aims to ascertain that Latin America's current urban growth through large and organized ‘land squattings’ and limited invasions is a massive, plural and common phenomenon which, to a certain extent, has been, up to now, ignored by 'the academic world and by formal...

...Aurelio Ferrero; Daniela Gargantini Latin America is recurrently affected by natural disasters. It is in the poorest populations where the damage combines disastrously with the vulnerability of these communities, and only few of the experiences developed in Latin America have used efficient...