Alberto Cumerlato
Alberto is an architect from Italy with a profound passion for design for social impact and public interest architecture.
Location Italy
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
The course has been extremely interesting thanks to its straightforward approach to urban planning in developing contexts. The many concrete examples were useful to have a clear view of the urban challenges and opportunities that the city of Freetown is facing, as well as many other cities in Africa.
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
Particularly interesting is that urban risks can manifest in many ways, at different scales, and most importantly spread in a wide time horizon. Trying to control the spatial and predict the temporal factors is probably the biggest challenge. External unpredictable variables like climate changes ( heavy intense rains ) and the potential spread of diseases (...
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
Not directly related to the city where I am currently living but I think it is interesting to share the participatory planning involvement process promoted and led by UN-Habitat called "USING MINECRAFT FOR YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN URBAN DESIGN AND GOVERNANCE". This is an initiative replicated in various cities across the world where youth are directly involved...
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Encouraging community participation and the so-called participatory design can be an effective way that triggers improvements at a large scale. All stakeholders and especially those directly involved, informal settlement dwellers, are able to share a different point of view with the aim to achieve share solutions and long-term visions. An example that I have...
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are both quite striking examples of spatial injustice. Wealthy rich inhabitants live in tall luxury condos next to middle-income and at times even very poor informal settlements. While the first category usually takes prominent and "safe" lands, the second one happens in areas not ideal for housing.
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
Urban development comprehends all the social-political, economic, and environmental aspects that shape the built and unbuilt habitat.
Urban planning is the discipline that deals with land governance which urban development is s big stake in it.
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Alberto Cumerlato made a comment
Hello everyone,
my name is Alberto and I am an Italian architect currently based in Kigali, Rwanda. Mainly working within the AEC industry with extensive experience in the design and construction of housing, education, and healthcare projects across East Africa I am joining this course because I hope it can give me a broad overview and knowledge in urban...
