Latin American Urbanism Symposium

Abstract

<h3>Liminality in Latin America’s Global Cities: constructed and imagined borderlands of the formal and the informal</h3>

<p>This Symposium focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to urban studies in Latin America, with an emphasis on the dynamics of contemporary urban-rural environments. This year the symposium focuses on the space "in-between" and transitions between formal and informal systems. Rapid development, rural-urban migration, and urban growth during recent decades have created conflicts between formal and informal economic and political systems, social structures, and built environments in Latin America's "global cities." Through a series of lectures during the semester and a summary panel discussion, the symposium will explore multiple aspects of: economic and environmental justice; race, ethnicity, and class; citizenship, the state, transnationalism, and rural-urban transformations, among other topics.</p>

<p>This Symposium is organized by the <a href="http://www.design.iastate.edu/architecture/index.php">Department of Architecture</a> and the <a href="http://www.anthr.iastate.edu/">Department of Anthropology</a> at Iowa State University.</p>

<p>Contact Silvina Lopez Barrera at <a href="maitlo:silvinal@iastate.edu">silvinal@iastate.edu</a></p>