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Buenos Aires: Piedra, Papel & Tijera, 2012. b/w and color plates, maps, diags, chrts., illus. endpapers, b/w pict. wrps. OCLC: 820951340. This book outlines a work methodology for the insertion of public space in informal settlements through a project developed in Villa Tranquila, a settlement in Buenos Aires, Argentina by architects Flavio Janches and Max Rohm. Its intention is to serve as a guide, a basic manual that could be used to aid similar efforts in low-income communities around the world. As stated in the foreword by John Beardsley, "[...] While developing a method for intervening in squatter settlements, the project also suggests that an inventive process, especially one that recognizes and develops local narratives through community participation, can facilitate or even inspire design outcomes. The use of play space as an element of urban reconstruction is not unprecedented: Janches and Rohm themselves cite the example of Aldo van Eyck in post-World-War-Two Amsterdam. Nor is a… Leer más