Samba: Resistance to Nationalism

Samba: Resistance to Nationalism

Research Questions/Intro The main themes that this research kit is trying to cover is the importance of music as a cultural identity in relation to national pride and the ways music can be used to convey a political message. Being one of the last countries to abolish...
15-Minute City Design Concept

15-Minute City Design Concept

Introduction and Research Questions   Fifteen minute cities are a strategic urban design plan that have been quickly gaining popularity in several countries. The concept entails giving city residents access to all their needs within a fifteen minute walk or bike...

Northern Mexican Cartels Acting as “Urban Planners”

Research Questions/Intro This research kit is a collection of primary and secondary sources including pictures, journal entries, song lyrics, and questions to explore the topic of Northern Mexican cartel organizations being urban planners for cities or regions where...

Transformation of Urban Planning in Rio de Janeiro

Overview My research question aims at highlighting the way in which city planners in Latin America view public space has changed. During the beginning of the twentieth urban planners were remodeling Latin American cities after Paris in order to obtain this concept of...
Cacerolazos

Cacerolazos

Research Questions/Intro When thinking about social demonstrations in Latin America, the word cacerolazos floods headlines and imagines of pots and pans accompanying it. Cacerolazo is defined by The Washington Post as the banging of pots and pans, used in particular...