Entries tagged ‘Lima’
-
A Plan for ‘Meal Centers’ Where Goods and Services are Exchanged for Food
At Lima’s Innovation Workshop, participants voted for a proposed system in which need-based pricing and a network of community gardens would revolutionize food distribution.
-
Participants in Innovation Workshops Create Solutions for the Futures of Their Cities
The second phase of the Informal City Dialogues’ workshops has begun, with attendees now not only looking toward their cities’ futures, but figuring out ways to impact them.
-
One Month in Photos
From an annual water fight in Bangkok to the slum-based bars of Nairobi, our fortnightly roundup of photos from our bloggers.
-
High Costs and a Shortage of Doctors Keep Traditional Healers in Business
From snake-infused booze to bat-carcass tea, Peru’s centuries-old cures can still be found in modern Lima thanks, in part, to a formal medical system that’s hard to access.
-
Debajo de una Superficie Pulcra, Emerge un Mercado Negro
Polvos Azules, uno de los centros comerciales más transitados de Lima, es casi indistinguible de un ‘mall’ convencional. Nunca adivinarías que casi todo ahí es ilegal.
-
Through Riots and Police Barricades, a Market for the Poor Staggers On
Lima’s plan to shut down La Parada market as part of its plan to modernize the city has only one problem: Come hell or high water, the people aren’t leaving.
-
Two Weeks in Photos
From Nairobi’s politico-skewering smash TV show to Manila’s odd-ball tricycle bartering system, our fortnightly roundup of photos from our bloggers.
-
A Covert Operation to Keep Lima’s Construction Workers Well-Fed
She isn’t a contractor, an architect or a carpenter, yet Maritsa has found a way to cash in on her city’s frenetic construction boom: By feeding its workers, one meal at a time.
-
Sustainable Transport, Organic Food and Other Visions for 2040
At a Futures Scenarios Workshop in Lima, participants who today don’t even have running water imagined a city in which bikes and co-ops reign, and strangers share tables at restaurants.
-
An Informal Cemetery Copes With Unwanted Newcomers: The Living
Informal dwellings are popping up in Cristo El Salvador Cemetery, worrying the resting ground’s hobbled caretaker. “This cemetery was never meant to be next to houses,” he intones.
Page 3 of 4
With generous support from
