* Architecture + Urban Design: A City Rises, Along With Its Hopes, by Michael Kimmelman - Fighting Crime with Architecture in Medellin, Colombia

Architecture + Urban Design: A City Rises, Along With Its Hopes, by Michael Kimmelman – Fighting Crime with Architecture in Medellin, Colombia: “..For some time now, if you asked architects and urban planners for proof of the power of public architecture and public space to remake the fortunes of a city, they’d point here..Twenty-odd years ago, this was Pablo Escobar’s town, with an annual homicide rate that peaked at 381 per 100,000. In New York City that would add up to an almost inconceivable 32,000 murders a year..”  Excellent, detailed, informative article by Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times, looking at some of the architectural and social interventions in Medellin..

Slideshow, accompanying the article, here.

See posts on other articles by Michael Kimmelman:

• Architecture: Renzo Piano’s Demure Additions to Le Corbusier’s Masterpiece – Quiet Additions to a Modernist Masterpiece, by Michael Kimmelman
• Residential Architecture: At Edge of Paris, a Housing Project Becomes a Beacon, by Michael Kimmelman
• Architecture: Urban Design: It Riles a Village by Michael Kimmelman
• Architecture + Design: Paved, but Still Alive by Michael Kimmelman – Urban + Suburban Design
• Architecture + Urban Design: The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan by Michael Kimmelman
• Treasuring Urban Oases – by Michael Kimmelman
• Imagining Housing for Today, by Michael Kimmelman – Models for Contemporary Urban Housing
• In Protest, the Power of Place by Michael Kimmelman – Place as Place & the Architecture of Social Consciousness
• Rescued by Design, by Michael Kimmelman – Expanding the Idea of Design Guru
• New York’s Public Architecture Gets a Face-Lift by Michael Kimmelman – Well-Designed Socially Conscious Urban Architecture

image: Paul Smith for The New York Times; article: Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

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