Urban Design Lab Handbook : Dialogue-oriented Urban Transformation Processes and Practical Approaches From Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean constitute the second-most urbanized region in the world, with many cities still growing exponentially. Long-term strategies need to be developed to meet the resulting challenges. How can growing cities be planned without neglecting their urbanity? How can urban spatial growth be managed in tandem with social, environmental, cultural, and economic challenges? Between 2013 and 2018, the Urban Design Lab worked in over twenty emerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. They developed dynamic planning tools that trigger transformative urban processes by engaging and empowering local communities. This handbook not only explains the context and emerging problems faced by the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean, but also proposes solutions for typical difficulties encountered within those urban conglomerations. Contents Introduction Preface Introducing the Urban Design Lab The Need for an Urban Laboratory Emerging Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Cities Photoessay 1 A Evolution Community, Participation and Urban Transformation Habitat and Social Inclusion in Urban Planning: Participation and Investigation in the Urban Design Lab Methodology The Urban Design Lab in Latin American Cities: A View from Academia Diagrams of Participatory Urbanism Tailor-Made Urbanism: Urban Design Lab in Panama City Ultra-Light Metropolis: The Ephemeral Megacity of the Kumbh Mela Culture as an Incubator for Urban Transformation The City at Eye Level: Focusing on the Plinth Towards a Human-Scale City in Latin America Photoessay 2 B Methodology A Practical Approach to Urban Planning Research Stakeholder Dialogue Project Design Simple Toolbox for Participative Planning and Design Workshops Guest Contributors Medellín—A “City for Life” Cultivating “Urban Complexity” in Latin America The Design of Public Policy In Situ Planning: Moderating Urban Development Processes Locally C Solutions Integral Urban Strategies for the Regeneration of Central Areas Central Nassau Urban Regeneration Plan, Nassau, The Bahamas Integrated Housing and Mixed-Use Strategy for the Historic Center of Paramaribo, Suriname Vivimos Juntos: Integration and Densification of the Historic Center of Managua, Nicaragua Urban Strategies for a Livable Downtown Montego Bay, Jamaica Volver al Centro: Integrated Urban Revitalization of the Historic City Center of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Barrio Mercado: Rehabilitation Strategy for Central Market of Monteria, Colombia Connected City: Pasto River Fluvial Park, Pasto, Colombia Neighborhood Revitalization and Sub-Centralities Urban Regeneration Plan of the Calidonia District, Panama City, Panama Photoessay 3 Urban Renovation Plan of Barrio Infanta, Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina Alto Comedero Urban Renovation: A Strategy for Social and Spatial Integration, Jujuy, Argentina Urban Regeneration Plan of the Eje Pacífico— González Víquez, San José, Costa Rica Conceptual Design for the Improvement of Barrio Collico, Valdivia, Chile A New Sub-Center for the East of San Francisco de Campeche, México La Mariscal: Activation of Borja Yerovi Plaza, Quito, Ecuador Transformation Strategies for Abandoned Railway Infrastructure Improvement of Intercultural Center at Former Railway Station, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Goya Central Park: Reinterpretation of the Former Railway Station, Goya, Argentina Nodo Spurr: Integration of Former Railway Station into System of Centralities, Bahia Blanca, Argentina Connecting Xalapa: Integrated Revitalization of Railway Corridor, Xalapa, Mexico Integral Strategies for Metropolitan Areas Five-minute city—Strategy for the territorial integration of Ciudad Juan Bosch, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic Metropolitan Public Space Integration Plan, Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas, Chile Metropolitan Landscape and Green Habitat: Rio Elqui and Parque El Culebrón, La Serena and Coquimbo, Chile Guest Contributors Community Capital in Action: New Financial Models for Resilient Cities Digital Strategies for Low-Income Neighborhoods Photoessay 4 The Immanent Potential of Vacant Spaces Airport Landscape Initiative D Outlook Interview with Jorge Perez Jaramillo About the Contributors Urban Design Lab—Project Teams Imprint After North America, the second-most urbanized region in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean, 78% of whose population lives in cities. The result of five years of recent research by Viennas Urban Design Lab, this handbook contextualizes emergent planning issues at hand in the region, where cities are continuing to grow at considerably high rates. Case studies conducted between 2013 and 2018 in over 20 cities, accompanied by 250 color illustrations, offer a detailed survey of the issues facing Latin American and Caribbean urban planning in the 2010s. Topics covered include social participation in the planning process, the role of culture in urban transformation, human-scale city development, and creative reinterpretation of existing municipal structures. Several detailed examinations of specific buildingsincluding Panamanian and Argentinian railway stations, airports and gardenspresent focused and practical accounts of these new urban strategies. Lateinamerika und die Karibik bilden eine der am stärksten urbanisierten Regionen der Welt, und weiterhin verzeichnen die Städte enormes Wachstum. Um auf die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen zu reagieren, müssen langfristige Strategien entwickelt werden. Wie erweitert man eine wachsende Stadt, ohne ihre Urbanität zu verlieren? Wie kann das städtische Wachstum mit sozialen, ökologischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Fragen verknüpft werden? Urban Design Lab (UDL) hat in mehr als 20 Städten Lateinamerikas und der Karibik gearbeitet - und dabei Planungswerkzeuge entwickelt, die Transformationsprozesse anstoßen, indem sie Nachbarschaften vor Ort mit einbeziehen und unterstützen. Dieses Handbuch erläutert den Kontext sowie die Herausforderungen dieser Städte und bietet Lösungsansätze für die Probleme urbaner Agglomerationen