How to Draw Medellín

Alejandro Echeverri, Alejandro Valdivieso, Essay, expanding design practices, High Density, Southern Coexistences, Territory and mobility

Architect’s role, Architecture’s challenge, Citizen interaction, City challenge, Colombia, Discontinuity, Education, Essay, Geography, Harvard Design Magazine, Latin America, Leading the debate, Medellin, Notes towards a History of Urbanism, Orography, Poverty line, Public coexistences, Public space role, Slums, Social cohesion, Streams, Urban conditions, Urban pathologies, Urban planning, Urban space, Urban sprawl, Violence

Alejandro Valdivieso talks to Alejandro Echeverri about streets, streams, and social cohesion.

Harvard Design Magazine No. 42 (S/S 2016), is titled "Run for Cover!" This issue explores explores how fear—of assault, of nature, of power, of the Other—shapes our physical world, and how the built environment provokes, prevents, or palliates fear. The following is an original feature from the issue.