By 2011, there were over 500,000 people living in more than 800 informal settlements around the periphery of Buenos Aires. Research from an NGO called TECHO or 'A roof for my country' …

Nov 3, 2022 · Four-fifths of Latin Americans live in cities. But almost every big city is encircled by slums, which house 120m people, or 20% of the region’s population.

The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums …

Nov 1, 2024 · Based on qualitative research with a small informal settlement, Barrio Saldías, in Buenos Aires, that fell off the city government's agenda, this paper explores the role of participation in …

Oct 14, 2020 · In Argentina, security forces have sealed off one of the poorest neighborhoods in the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires, preventing people from entering or leaving, after more than half …

Slums and informal settlements in Buenos Aires are growing in size. Most face significant resource and infrastructure deficits, as well as high flood risk, and are thus highly vulnerable to the effects of a …

May 27, 2020 · The term villa miseria emerged in Argentina in the late 1950s to identify the numerous slums that were disseminated throughout the country, with a higher intensity in the capital city of …

“Villa Miseria” (Misery Slums) are the slum communities that make up Buenos Aires’s interior urban districts and surrounding settlements. A misery slum is defined as highly crowded concentrations in …

The Slum and the City is a brilliant book that challenges not only the historical boundaries between the formal and informal neighborhoods of Buenos Aires but also those that separate ‘high’ and ‘popular’ …

Villa 31, sometimes called Barrio Padre Mugica or Barrio 31, [1] is a large villa miseria (slum) in the Retiro area of Buenos Aires, near the local railway station.