Oldie but Goodie: Hybridization instead of Gentrification! (ReMix) Use Re-contextualizando el concepto de uso mixto en la ciudad contemporánea. Las ciudades al final del siglo 20 y principio del siglo 21 son el escenario de la lucha sociocultural en contra del dominio global, y se dirigen hacia una diferenciación cultural donde los individuos pueden hacer…

Read the article I wrote for the Architect’s Newspaper on the Exhibit/Event ReThink San Diego Click Here Photo: John Bahu

Occidente Nuevo: Recycled Tijuana No se pierdan esta exposición de los fotógrafos Laura Migliorino y Anthony Marchetti de las viviendas que literalmente cruzaron la frontera de San Diego a Tijuana  Habra una mesa de dialogo con Michael Bell, Columbia University, Larry Herzog SDSU y Ted Smith Woodbury University. Modera Rene Peralta 23 de Octubre 6:30pm…

Re-Assembling Tijuana Friday, October 16, 2015 – 8:00pm West Hollywood Public Library, Community Room CRITICAL STUDIES: In the beginning, Tijuana was a city physically and historically shaped by paradoxes from both the north and the south. Toward the end of the 20th century, it was recognized as the mixing chamber for hybrid cultures within a dialectic…

Maquilapolis @ Landscape + Urbanism Graduate Program, Woodbury University San Diego. Our 2014 Graduate class research included the potential of a resurgence of the industrial city. With Tijuana. Mexico as our test ground we had the opportunity to visit its manufacturing parks and the innovative 3D Robotics Drone manufacturing facility.  L+U Grads with professors Rene…

Our Border/Bi-National Region:  The Resurgence of Tijuana                                     image: Rene Peralta The bi-national future of the Tijuana-San Diego cross-border region has been on the radar screens of citizens and public officials for several decades.  Unfortunately, the combined impacts…

Hi all,This blog is back with my latest text on PREVI in PeruThis essay was written for the online magazine ACTA. Click here PREVI_45 years of Resiliency From Sustainable to Resilient Cities “The urban, which is indifferent to each difference it contains, often seems to be as indifferent as nature, but with a cruelty all its…

Fundacion Esperanza de Mexico  Building Hope and Homes for low-income communities in Tijuana Click on the image to go to FEM website It’s been 4 years now that I have been part of a great organization in which I truly believe in…Fundacion Esperanza de Mexico (FEM). FEM has been working in very low-income neighborhoods in…

The Third WayBy Rene Peralta Can we define community, as only a group of people who live in a particular place? Or can we consider that within a community there exists a network of actors who participate in the economic sustainability of a place. Therefore we might say that a community is a place/space where…