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Community initiative
Miravalle Community Council
The Miravalle Community Council aims to foster local transformation, and, in the process, become a model for socio-cultural reactivation in other marginalised urban communities.
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Project Description
Finding the Edge
Three interventions to three urgent issues: the importance of protecting the city’s edge; the effective use of local resources; and the safeguarding of public spaces.
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Statistics
Miravalle
Miravalle forms part of the Iztapalapa borough on the periphery of Mexico City, and is located on the side of a dormant volcano, overlooking the metropolitan urban landscape below
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Notes on the process
BUILDING NEW PERSPECTIVES
Ana Álvarez, researcher in Mexico City, was the local coordinator for urbanxchanger in that city and draws her notes on that process.
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Insights
A short term exchange may contribute to a solid agenda of transformative actions
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Insights
Explore the use of available local resources.
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Insights
Tuning local and external expectations and setting time frames is fundamental, but also a difficult task for the community
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Insights
This collaboration gave us new understanding of what constitutes design.
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Insights
Sometimes the process is more important than the product
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Insights
The act of ‘making’ is, in itself, revealing
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Insights
Seeing a familiar place through a new lens can unveil great potential for change