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FEATURES
Resisting Representation The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janeiro by Daniela Fabricius
Urban Peripheries and the Invention of Citizenship by James Holston and Teresa Caldeira
Urban Connectors Fostering a Non-Hierarchical Integration of Formal and Informal Settlements by David Gouverneur and Oscar Grauer

Design Interventions
Improving Informal Settlements Ideas from Latin America by John Beardsley and Christian Werthmann

Bogotá
Equalizing Mobility: TransMilenio Bus System; Ciclorutas and Ciclovia; Alameda El Porvenir; Usme; City of Bogotá by John Beardsley

Buenos Aires
Designing Process: Flavio Janches and Max Rohm by John Beardsley

Caracas
Urban Acupuncture: Urban-Think Tank by John Beardsley

Mexico City
Lake Ecologies: El Caracol: José Castillo, Architecture911SC by John Beardsley
It Takes Three: The "People," Businessmen, and Government Officials To Use Mexico City's Leftover Spaces for Social Inclusion by Enrique Martin-Moreno C.

Rio de Janeiro
Making History: The Favela Bairro Program and More by Christian Werthmann
Interventions for the Socio-Urban Integration of the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro by Lu Petersen

São Paulo
Dirty Water: The Guarapiranga Water Reservoir, Parque Amelia: The City of São Paulo: Watery Voids: MMBB by Christian Werthmann

Tijuana
Border Crossings: Estudio Teddy Cruz by John Beardsley
The Solution In Not Architectural Housing Problems of the Poor in Tijuana by Tito Alegría

Kibera
Kibera Public Space Project by Kounkuey Design Initiative
Co-Designing Productive Parks with the Poorest of Kibera Kenya
GSD Graduates Help a Nairobi Community by John Gendall

ON DESIGN
Contemporary Ornament
The Return of the Symbolic Repressed by Robert Levit
Peripatetic Invisibility, or, Not Enough Ado about Nothing: ICA/Boston by Sylvia Lavin
Director Medvedow, PUT BACK THAT SCREEN!!!: ICA/Boston by Jeffrey Kipnis

ON DEVELOPMENT
   Instant Cities, Instant Architecture, and Incremental Metropolitanism
by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
The Social Functions of NIMBYism by Matthew Kiefer

ON PRACTICE
   Beyond the ADA
by Thomas Spector

ON SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIGN
   Can Good Design Advance Urban Development?
The New Harvard Campus in Allston, Sustainability, and Its Effects on Design by Nathalie Beauvais

ON PLACE
Evangelical Architecture: Megachurch Images
Text by Myev Rees and Peter W. Williams

ON URBAN DESIGN
   Can Good Design Advance Urban Development?
On the Harvard Design Magazine Symposium "Can Design Improve Life in Cities? The Cases of Los Angeles, London, and Chicago" by Tim Love

BOOK REVIEWS
Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism by Felicity D. Scott; reviewed by Keller Easterling
   The Papers of Frederick Law Olmstead Volume 7: Parks, Politics, and Patronage, 1874-1883 edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Carolyn F. Hoffman, and Kenneth Hawkins; reviewed by John Dixon Hunt
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture; Written into the Void: selected writings, 1990-2004; Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings; Tracing Eisenman: Peter Eisenman Complete Work; Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques by Peter Eisenman; reviewed by Timothy Hyde
   From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer; The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton; reviewed by Daniel Naegele
   The Culture of Building by Howard Davis; reviewed by Dan Willis
   Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory by Grahame Shane; reviewed by Tom Bender
   Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War by Kathleen James-Chakraborty; reviewed by Joan Ockman

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