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Piso Piloto

Medellín - Barcelona

Diane Davis, Teresa Caldeira and Richard Burdett

The possible city. From urban planning to democracy

How might life in cities be improved? A debate between Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard University; Teresa Caldeira, anthropologist and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and Richard Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and director of the LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics.

Piso Piloto. Medellín - Barcelona

Beyond their differences, Medellín and Barcelona are cities of comparable sizes, with a long relationship of mutual cooperation and that have been distinguished internationally for having promoted an inclusive urban planning strategy that has put many public spaces at the service of social redistribution.