Reading Time: 3 minutes
Publication Date: 17/01/2025
How can cities reclaim their human scale amid accelerated, unplanned growth? In this episode of GP Talks, a videopodcast by Gómez Platero Architecture & Urbanism, Felipe Vera, Lead Specialist in the Housing and Urban Development Division at the IDB; Carolina Pereiro, architect and team leader at Gómez Platero; and Pablo Marqués, President of Grupo Punto and communications advisor, reflect on the contemporary challenges of urbanism in Latin America and the need to design more inclusive, resilient, and people-centered cities.
This episode explores how urban development can become a tool for improving quality of life by integrating public space, housing, mobility, and new social dynamics into a long-term strategic vision. The conversation highlights a historic opportunity for Latin America: to rethink its cities through a more human, flexible, and sustainable lens.
To expand on these topics, we are sharing a new edition of GP Summary, a downloadable brochure that brings together the episode’s key takeaways while broadening the conversation with data, trends, and insights on contemporary urbanism.
In the downloadable brochure, you will find:
- Unplanned urban growth in Latin America.
- Emerging ways of living.
- Childhood and the city.
- Proximity and mixed-use urban models.
- The silver economy and multigenerational living.
- Public space and social cohesion.
An analysis of how architecture, urbanism, and Real Estate development can work together to create more human-centered cities, capable of responding to the social, demographic, and cultural transformations shaping the way we live today.
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