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SUMMARY:LASUR Seminar - Matias Echanove: "The Homegrown City"
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DESCRIPTION:Matias Echanove\nViewed from the EPFL campus\, in Renens\, Swi
 tzerland\, the homegrown city appears like a distant reality. Locally de
 veloped\, without urbanists\, engineers or architects\, homegrown habitats
  are usually seen as surviving fragments from what we once called the “T
 hird World”—pre-industrial\, backward\, irrational and anachronistic. 
 I challenge that view and argue that homegrown urbanism is a prevailing or
  latent condition everywhere. Drawing from cases in India\, Japan\, Colom
 bia and Switzerland\, I will present a practice that radically departs fro
 m the project-centric approach that currently dominates the urban design i
 magination. I will propose a method based on the acceptance of incremental
  transformation as the basis for a future that is not only more inclusive 
 and robust\, but also more efficient and beautiful.\n\nMatias Echanove has
  over 20 years of urban planning and design practice in Asia\, America\, a
 nd Europe. He co-founded the urbz collective. His training is from the Lon
 don School of Economics\, Columbia University\, and the University of Toky
 o\, informed by years of hands-on experience in neighborhoods such as Shim
 okitazawa (Tokyo)\, Bed-Stuy (Brooklyn)\, Dharavi (Mumbai)\, and Siloé (C
 ali). He is a frequent presenter at institutions like Harvard and ETHZ\, a
 nd his articles have appeared in The New York Times and Oxford Universi
 ty Press. He co-authored The Homegrown City (Verso\, London 2026) with 
 Rahul Srivastava.
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