Metropoleaks
Urban depictions and snapshots from around the world
Our suggestions
Web articles and blogs about urbanism:
Cidades para que(m) (cities for what/who?) is the blog of a Sao Paolo university teacher about urban policies and actuality in Brasil.
Social organisation based in Paris which supports the movements opposed to an airport-project in the rural area of Notre Dame des Landes, France. They propose a clever method to build houses with recycled materials.
SInapolis is a french agency located in Beijing, China. The web site proposes interseting articles and studies about chinese cities and urbanism.
Cidades para que(m) (cities for what/who?) is the blog of a Sao Paolo university teacher about urban policies and actuality in Brasil.
Organizations:
Organization that promotes the detection of abandoned houses in Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo y Madrid to focus public attention on the fact that there are more empty houses than homeless people in the cities.
Secretaria Latinoamericana de Vivienda y Hábitat Popular is a red of latin-american organizations which promote popular habitat and self-management.
World wide red of social organizations and movements who promote human rights to access a decent home by producing knowledge about habitat issues and participating in international as well as local discussions.
Organization that promotes the detection of abandoned houses in Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo y Madrid to focus public attention on the fact that there are more empty houses than homeless people in the cities.
Alternative ways to discover cities:
If you go to Lille, north of France, don't miss the Maisons Folies (in Wazemmes and Moulins). Refurbished industrial buildings hosting cultural centers which organize free activities. The alternative side of Lille !
Free guided tours through alternative Berlin sites; reconverted industrial areas, urban art highlights, alternative shops and bars... A very good way to get a introduction into underground and artistic Berlin.
If you go to Lille, north of France, don't miss the Maisons Folies (in Wazemmes and Moulins). Refurbished industrial buildings hosting cultural centers which organize free activities. The alternative side of Lille !
Exhibitions, movies, books...:
Argentinan movie by Martín M. Oesterheld Intersting movie showing almost without words the violent contrasts between private and social production of the city in Buenos Aires.
Trabajo del fotógrafo independiente Walter Sangroni sobre el Centro de Integración Monteagudo (C.I.M.), un hogar para gente en situación de calle en Buenos Aires
French movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. A group of young adults living in a tipical neglected district of french cities get in trouble with the police after a friend of them gets beaten up by an inspector.
Argentinan movie by Martín M. Oesterheld Intersting movie showing almost without words the violent contrasts between private and social production of the city in Buenos Aires.