This collaboration gave us new understanding of what constitutes design.
The collaboration with design professionals gave us new understanding of what constitutes design and helped with the preparation of a more integrated community development plan.
Fresh perspectives brought by the urban practitioners complemented the work that had already been carried out, generating a wider understanding of what constitutes design from an architectural point of view, and the need for adequate planning - of time, resources and expectations - before starting the building process.
[Miravalle Community Council]
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We have invited Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of the Finantial Times, to write about the urbanxchanger experience.
Mexico City
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.
Mexico City
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.
Mexico City
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
Mexico City
Ana Álvarez, researcher in Mexico City, was the local coordinator for urbanxchanger in that city and draws her notes on that process.
Mexico City
Mexico City
