This “magazine” ’s sixth issue Urbanisms: Model Cities, had two pieces that caught my eye/imagination. The common thread was Latin America.
This one (here) by José León Cerrillo and Peter J. Russo explores the complex geometries between cannibalism and Modernist Mexican structures. Its opens with a longtime favorite of mine, Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago. It closes with a computer interactive graphical appropriation of imagery and text.

the City that built itself by Joshua Bauchner, explores the cannibalized, small politics in action. Specifically, he visits Caracas, where approximately 80,000 residents have made “fifty-year-old superblock housing projects into the locus of sprawling improvised settlements“. The article also examines the political history beyond the early Modernist superblocks construction under the regime of Jimenez. One interesting note, is that although now supporting a much higher density than originally planned, the superblocks and surrounding landscape still serve as a structure/infrastructure for the current re-purposing of the blocks by the local community/councils.

Love the map on this “page” http://tinyurl.com/ln9wje

And this image gives some sense of the scale of the original project in relation to the city.

Photo By Joshua Bauchner