Emerging topics for Urban Design Task

Housing

• Qualitative and quantitative housing deficit • Tenements • Affordable Housing • Collective Housing • Productive Housing

Productiviy

• Informal economy • Unemployment • Small scale economy • Lack of local job opportunities • Craft(wo)menship

Heritage Conservation

• Parque Las Cruces, Cathedral, Fountain • Monastry and church • Plaza Las Cruces • Specific residential houses

Marginalization & (invisible) border

• Fisical borders • Mental borders: Stigmatisation • Negative Image and reputation

Security and Criminality

• High crime rate • Gang activities • Illegal activites • Feeling of insecurity

Public space

• Lack of public space • Lack of green space • Poor conditions and low design quality of public space • Poor walking quality for pedestians

Culture

• Craft(wo)menship • Hiphop, Rap

Unadequate uses and abandond places

• Parking lots and material storage • Warehouse at Plaza Las Cruces • Bus depots and strorage halls on Carrera Septima • Closed former monasty • Houses in ruins

Arrival city

• Attractive location for migrants • Lack of affordable housing for migrants • Lack of job opportunities for migrants • Low education level of migrants

Environment and nature

• Lack of green space • Mountain range ecosystem • Closed rivers

“YOU DON´T HAVE TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS AT ONCE, YOU JUST HAVE TO PLANT A SEED...”

“YOU DON´T HAVE TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS AT ONCE, YOU JUST HAVE TO PLANT A SEED...” Santiago Pradilla