Verde Smoke

More info at http://architecture.mit.edu/class/cityscope/

I’m the writing TA for this semester’s CityScope class and we’ve just returned from a trip to Peru during spring break. Here’s the blurb on the class from the syllabus:

“CityScope is a combination undergraduate course and Masters in City Planning graduate practicum that focuses on a series of topics, using social and political science, engineering and technical tools, architectural design and other fields and methods. We focused on one city in particular, the coastal town of Tambo de Mora (TdM). Today, TdM is host to a toxic mix of some of the worst problems of a post-disaster urban zone. Suffering from a natural, human, political and social tragedy, the city’s future continues to be haunted by the tremendous earthquake damage of August 2007.