Around the world, followers of architecture with a capital A have focused so much of their attention on formal experiments, as if aesthetics and social activism, twin Modernist concerns, were mutually exclusive. But Medellín is proof that they’re not, and shouldn’t be. Architecture, here and elsewhere, acts as part of a larger social and economic ecology, or else it elects to be a luxury, meaningless except to itself — NYT
Michael Kimmelman visits Medellín, Colombia and explores how architects and urban planners have used the power of public architecture and public space to remake the fortunes of a city. However, he suggests that it isn't just design but also more mundane changes such as participatory budgeting and civic initiatives that linked education and community development to new infrastructure and glamorous architecture.
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Possibly the best article to date on how Medellin's architecture has helped spawn an economic renaissance.
A bit odd that it doesn't mention Unidad Deportive Atanasio Giradot: http://www.zorba.com.co/unidad-deportiva-atanasio-girardot/
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