Discussion: Simply Built – a Chance for Our Urban Planet

Caracas: the “global city” with its grid-like layout and high-rise blocks side by side with the informal structure of the “global slum”, the barrios
More than half the population of the world today lives in cities. In India alone, it is estimated that within the next two decades, 380 million people will migrate from rural areas into metropolises. That would mean creating 20 new cities the size of Mumbai or São Paolo. In this context, it is somewhat ironic that Western property firms are...
Caracas: the “global city” with its grid-like layout and high-rise blocks side by side with the informal structure of the “global slum”, the barrios