ULCR San José Lab 2019
Responsible Villages: the governance of the territory and the landscape as a commons
A Master Plan for the Central Districts of Los Santos The Universidad Latina’s School of Architecture, the School of Public Relations, and the School of Biology have launched a pilot project in May 2019 to investigate “Villages and the Territory as a Commons”. This...
Latest generation of electric transport and its impact on the urban environment
An approach to the urban problems of Costa Rica in the field of mobility.
Social Housing as a commons for resilient cities – San José
A Research and Development Program at The Universidad Latina of Costa Rica This project is part of the Research and Development program, which seeks to develop initiatives with communities and local governments that allow for the execution of real projects that...
Panel: Arch. Margherita Valle Pilia “The city as a common good”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09AZZtYjPc
Project “The influence of the city model on the experience of public space. A study applied to the working and student population of the Greater Metropolitan Area, Costa Rica, for 2020”.
In this paper, we want to offer a pluralistic view of what have been defined as urban commons, including the idea of the city itself as a commons. This concept, developed by researchers such as Iaione and Foster, highlights how, among the characteristics of some...
LagGov San José (Costa Rica) Events
On May 8th, Margherita Valle, Architect and LabGov research collaborator will give a lecture on the “City as a commons" as part of the Collective Construction of the City day, which will take place during the XIV International Architecture Congress "Territory and...
Social Housing as a Common Good for Resilient Cities
LabGov Costa Rica began this 2019 a project of Social Housing in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements, and the real estate development council. The intention of this project is to apply the Co-City methodology in a collaborative experience...
The Dilemma of Public Time and the Implications of Urban Planning in Costa Rica (El dilema del tiempo público y las implicaciones de la planificación urbana en Costa Rica)
Abstract The following article presents the work of discussion between two hypotheses born within the academic research that was developed throughout the Urban Design courses. The focus of these classes allowed to discuss and analyze the possible influences of urban...