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Moritz Ahlert / Maximilian Becker / Albert Kreisel / Philipp Misselwitz / Nina Pawlicki / Tobias Schrammek

Urban Lab Medellín | Berlin

https://urbanlabmedellinberlin.com/

c/o Maximilian Becker Weserstraße 203, 12047 Berlin, Germany
The Urban Lab Medellín | Berlin is an international think and do tank that brings together inhabitants, students, architects, local authorities, and other urban actors from Colombia and Germany in a process of co-production, to research, discuss, design and build jointly. Cultural exchange and empiric knowledge transfer generates synergies, mutual learning effects and creates innovative solutions for inclusive and sustainable urban transformations.

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Moravia Manifesto


Coding Strategies for Informal Neighborhoods

Moravia Manifesto


Coding Strategies for Informal Neighborhoods
An alternative planning approach coproduced by inhabitants from an informal settlement in Medellín.
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  • Site-specific cases

In view of rapidly progressing urbanization worldwide, informal settlements, especially in the cities of the global south must be a focus of our attention – because in the future, the majority of new city inhabitants will settle in these unplanned extensions of urban centers. The tools and methods of conventional urban planning have so far been unable to tackle this phenomenon. New approaches, combining top-down planning and bottom-up initiatives to create sustainable and viable living environments, are required.
The book presents alternative planning approaches put forward by an international think-and-do tank, developed alongside local participants from the Moravia informal settlement at the heart of Medellín, Colombia. The urban coding planning approach demonstrates new ways in which planning, politics, economy, and administration can initiate and implement innovative and inclusive urban transformation processes together with local communities.



Moravia Manifesto


Coding Strategies for Informal Neighborhoods

Moravia Manifesto


Coding Strategies for Informal Neighborhoods
An alternative planning approach coproduced by inhabitants from an informal settlement in Medellín.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

In view of rapidly progressing urbanization worldwide, informal settlements, especially in the cities of the global south must be a focus of our attention – because in the future, the majority of new city inhabitants will settle in these unplanned extensions of urban centers. The tools and methods of conventional urban planning have so far been unable to tackle this phenomenon. New approaches, combining top-down planning and bottom-up initiatives to create sustainable and viable living environments, are required.
The book presents alternative planning approaches put forward by an international think-and-do tank, developed alongside local participants from the Moravia informal settlement at the heart of Medellín, Colombia. The urban coding planning approach demonstrates new ways in which planning, politics, economy, and administration can initiate and implement innovative and inclusive urban transformation processes together with local communities.




Idea by

Moritz Ahlert / Maximilian Becker / Albert Kreisel / Philipp Misselwitz / Nina Pawlicki / Tobias Schrammek
Urban Lab Medellín | Berlin
c/o Maximilian Becker Weserstraße 203
12047 Berlin
Germany
The Urban Lab Medellín | Berlin is an international think and do tank that brings together inhabitants, students, architects, local authorities, and other urban actors from Colombia and Germany in a process of co-production, to research, discuss, design and build jointly. Cultural exchange and empiric knowledge transfer generates synergies, mutual learning effects and creates innovative solutions for inclusive and sustainable urban transformations.