Nitra, Slovakia’s sixth-largest city, is home to 78,353 residents (2020), including migrant workers from Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and other Balkan countries, as well as a significant Roma community. While the economic base of the city is predominantly industrial, its surrounding areas maintain a strong agricultural tradition. In recent decades, Nitra has faced demographic decline […]
Alamar is a new city built in the 1970s in the outskirts of La Habana, Cuba, mostly with rudimental prefabricated technologies inherited from the soviets. It has been put in place through self-construction teams of 32 citizens employed in the so called microbrigadas: a system affecting not only the way the physical environment has been produced, but also the social texture formed in the process.
THE CASA DEL QUARTIERE The Casa del Quartiere San Salvario is meant to be a “neighbourhood house”: a community hub where to design, develop and run social and cultural activities, where exchange and connections between the activities, the actors and the local citizen community are promoted and facilitated. The San Salvario community hub grew gradually by […]