jordi lladó’s Reviews > Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City > Status Update

«all of Latin America is now a dynamo turning the lights back on in the dead spaces of North American cities. while there is much abstract talk in architectural schools about the need to “reurbanize” American cities, there is little recognition that Latino and Asian immigrants are already doing so on an epic scale. perhaps the time is ripe to tropicalize the national version of the “city on the hill”»