Urban warriors

Since the 1985 earthquake, social housing has been confined, in the most part to the suburbs. Now, in an attempt to bring it back to the centre, a consortium of architects, developers and planners have re-engineered an old cement works, and the land use around it, into housing, parks and ...

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