BEYOND PETROPOLIS

Each year, the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York travels to a city somewhere in the world that is exp eriencing a revelatory form of stress. In January of 2006 joined by students and faculty from the Universidad Catolica in Quito an d from the architecture and landscape programs at CCNY the destination of the group was the small town of Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. At the time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing munic ipality in...[Read more]