September 5, 2007
“A Drug-Runners’ Stronghold Finds a New Life”
By Nabeel in Blogroll | 0 comments
On August 12, 2007 the NY Times published and article about the formerly considered “most dangerous place on earth,” Medellin, Columbia. A place that Bibian Gomez, a local resident, remarked “You couldn’t step outside. Whenever you saw a young guy on a motorcycle you thought that he was an assassin.” In the past decade the mayor of Medellin, Sergio Fajardo, raised the standard of public architecture and “construct[ed] libraries and innovative parks in neglected neighborhoods. The former “bullet-riddled neighborhoods are coming to life with art museums and well-designed parks.” Click here if you want to know more.
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