A day to remember.
Took a cab this morning, passed a ceremony for a murdered boy. The taxi driver explained he might have been killed by a Colombian as there is some heavy antagonism between the two countries.
Met Luis Longhi at the University. Humble architect with an amazing mind, illiterate, but brilliant. Also cold-called Julio Kuroiwa and will be meeting him during this trip. Kuroiwa is a United Nations advisor for strategies in disaster reduction, this will be an amazing meeting and I am very grateful for that opportunity. Thank you Fernando Correa for your assistance on that.
Later in the day I held a lecture in the Urban Seminar on Sustainable Urbanism. There's nothing better than being able to reach out and encourage young people to dream big. I will forever remember this day. A note was left on my desk from one of the students...I still don't know who.
But bottom line - Peruvians are awsome!
Also learned about the 60 year relationship the barriadas/ slums/ popular establishments has had with the city center of Lima. Understanding the migration process is key to responsible urban planning. In the 1940' the litoralzation ignited by the Pan Americana, radio transistors informing rural communities abouth metropolitan opportunities and lack of land control in the Andes all contributed to immigration rates in Lima rising by 3%. But the city could not absorb all these new establishments, therefore, the immigrants started to claim land which was not theirs. This was the beginning of shantee towns.
If the government would have better understood the migration process Lima would have been better prepared to absorb immigrants.
I might be ignorant, but why am I yet to see a mandatory migration class in architecture schools' urban design curriculum?
Did I miss something, or is it due time for architecture schools to provide students with the bigger picture?
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