Invisible
By day, they are invisible, scattered about the city like stray dogs on the prowl, digging through yesterday’s trash, begging outside of restaurants, or sleeping in the ragpiles of cardboard and debris. But as creatures of the night, they regroup,...
Lima’s Villa el Salvador
Shantytowns and Squatters
They abandon mountains or fields for an uncharted journey into a city that doesn’t want them. In post cards, they are the picturesque peasant farmer who gives character to the landscape; in the cities, they are the forgotten, left on their own to reinvent...
Driving in Lima
Latin American cities in general are patterned after traditional Spanish layouts, anchored by a primary central plaza linked to a series of smaller outlying plazas, all of which form the hub of residential and commercial life. The layout is about community and...
La Paz: City in the Sky
One gasps upon flying into this city in a bowl. Lying at a sobering 11,942 feet in elevation (3,640 m), La Paz and its two million people are stuffed tightly into a canyon amidst the jagged Bolivian Andes. It is a city seemingly painted onto the valley floor,...