Por Alfredo Brillenbourg, Diretor do Urban Think Tank. Workshop Inserção do Transporte Sustentável no Morar Carioca, 10 e 11 de outubro 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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The Architecture of
Social Investment
September 30, 2010

2. If humanity is to have a recognizable future, it cannot be
prolonging the past or the present... Social distribution
and not growth would dominate the politics of the new millennium”
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1994

7. URBAN PLANET
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG & HUBERT KLUMPNER
political equator
ETH NSL D-ARCH ZURICH CHAIR OF URBAN DESIGN, U-TT / CARACAS / SAO PAULO /
political equator
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Dirty Works, Harvard University, Christian Werthamnn, U-TT

8. ....It is the people !

27. Last Round Ecology:
is a design tool BOX to build replicable,
open source, modern, off-grid resilient
communities. By weaving open source
prototypes
( Self Unit, VG, CASM,Dry Toilet etc.) , we
intend to provide basic human social
services while using resources
sustainably, and pursuing a right
livelihood for the 1 billion living in slums.
With a openly shared prototypes, we can
produce industrial products locally using
open source design and fabrication.
We see small, independent, land-based
economies as means to transform
societies and address pressing world
issues of lack of services.

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50. LONDON BERLIN
PARIS
DETROIT ISTANBUL
NEW YORK CITY
LOS ANGELES ISRAEL / TOKYO
PALESTINE AMMAN
HAVANA
MEXICO CITY MUMBAI
CARACAS
LAGOS
SINGAPORE
RIO DE JANEIRO
SÃO PAULO
[PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE : READING THE CONTEMPORARY CITY]

51. MODERN UTOPIA [BRASILIA] URBAN CRAWL [LAGOS]
INFRASTRUCTURAL DESIGN [SÃO PAULO] INSTANT CITIES [LAGOS]
MICROPLANNING [SÃO PAULO] PEOPLE’S INFRASTRUCTURE [LAGOS]
OIL AND THE AUTOMOBILE CITY [CARACAS] PRODUCTION AND STAGNATION [DETROIT]
INFORMAL TOOLBOX [CARACAS] SUBURBANIZATION [DETROIT]
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE [CARACAS] SHRINKING CITIES [DETROIT]
URBAN REGENERATION [BERLIN] LAND RECLAMATION [MUMBAI]
THE WALL [BERLIN] KINETIC CITY [MUMBAI]
TEMPORARY URBANISM [BERLIN] DENSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY [MUMBAI]
TRAIN URBANISM [TOKYO] THE GRID [NEW YORK]
TABULA RASA [TOKYO] CONNECTING THE CITY [NEW YORK]
POST BUBBLE CITY [TOKYO] STREET RENAISSANCE [NEW YORK]
FLUCTUATIONS OF BORDERS [ISRAEL / PALESTINE] MODERN SPECTACLE [PARIS]
FACTS ON THE GROUND [ISRAEL / PALESTINE] SITUATIONIST [PARIS]
SOFT ACTIVISM [ISRAEL / PALESTINE] REGIONAL URBANISM [PARIS]
[URBAN TOOLS]

52. BERLIN ZURICH ZURICH BERLIN ZURICH
THE WALL TEMPORARY URBANISM
DETROIT
SHRINKING CITIES
NEW YORK
STREET RENAISSANCE
ZURICH ZURICH TOKYO ZURICH
POST BUBBLE CITY
ISRAEL / PALESTINE ISRAEL / PALESTINE
FACTS ON THE GROUND SOFT ACTIVISM
ZURICH CARACAS ZURICH
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
LAGOS LAGOS LAGOS
URBAN CRAWL INSTANT CITIES PEOPLE’S INFRASTRUCTURE
ZURICH ZURICH ZURICH SÃO PAULO SÃO PAULO ZURICH ZURICH ZURICH
INFRASTRUCTURAL DESIGN MICROPLANNING

66. Colonial Period

67. Today

73. We are not only
interested in urban
life itself, but also in
the rhizome, the
complex processes
that is not done or
made according to a
recognized or
prescribed form; not
according to order;
unofficial, informal.

74. Leap-frogging:
The concerns of our research
in design ,is to take on this
debate about the modern
growing city. However, the
problem of the modern city
first taken up by CIAM in its
attempt to deal with the
“chaos” of the nineteenth-
century city, then criticized by
Team 10 for its resulting
“monotony” at mid-century,
and is now revisited by U-TT
with the embrace of
complexity of the ‘informal
city’.

75. Debunking the Myths of Marginality ?
1. Informal settlements are not the problem but the solution.
All of the traditional distinctions between favelas and the rest of the city have become useless as denoters of how and where to draw the boundaries.
This is not to say that the “formal” and“informal” parts of the city are indistinguishable, but that the standard ways of bifurcating the urban space in this
manner (the “cidade partida” or divided city either never applied or no longer apply.
2. Favelas can no longer be defined by their “illegality”
They were originally when people invaded open land on hillsides, marshes, watersheds, and roadsides), as most now have de facto tenure.
3. They can no longer be defined by lack of urban services
Over time almost all have obtained access to water, sewage, and electricity.
4. They can no longer be defined according to the precarious construction materials
Most houses are built in brick and mortar and two stories high or more.
5. They cannot even be defined as “free” places to live.
There is now a thriving internal real estate market for rental and purchase, with prices in the most desirable favelas of the South Zone, such as the
famous Rocinha, rivaling those of regular neighborhoods.
6. Finally, they cannot be defined as communities of misery or chronic poverty.
Not all the people in favelas are poor and not all the urban poor live in favelas.

77. Let's talk today of
architecture as a scaled
human association that
connects all the social
organisms into a work of
living art, in which the entire
process of work and life is
included... something in
which the principle of
production and consumption
takes on a form of quality.
It's a Gigantic project!

144. Slum Census