Latin America's unique urban characteristics

[Ruso]

Giving the fact that Latin America has some incredible cities with modern constructions, and beautifully developed areas, which contrast with the massive poverty in the region, one can realize that these cities have some very attractive characteristics. Hope your interested...

[Ruso]

Quito, Ecuador---www.equaguia.com/ mitaddelmundo/miniatura.html

-http://www.quito.gov.ec/

Buenos Aires, Argentina----http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/

-orchid.cbk.poznan.pl/ ~pablo/Argentina/page_01.htm

Bogot

[PghUSA]

nice links! thanks ruso, SA really is a study in contrasts add to that the drug trade and counterinsurgency in places like columbia.

It is a testament to many of those cities that they flourish even with those starke contrasts everpresent.

[Ruso]

And not only Latin America...there are so many cities, and urban centers in the world, with so many interesting characteristics, that i would like to know about them...If anyone has pics, history, info to share about any world city....please do...

[josita]

Let's talk about Chile .. the longest country in the world. It is also the one that is the closest to Antartica and thus has quite a diversity of climate from desert to the north, mountains to the west, ocean to the east and cold to the south ..

it is a beautiful country

[Ruso]

Yes it is a beatifull country, and allegedly the richest country of Latin America...It is very developed, beatiful cities. Hwever it has a history of cruel dictatorships and injustice.

In urban terms, you might like to know some of these nations' cities: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela

[Ruso]

Thank you all...

Well, I dont know how to insert pics in the forum, but here are some websites with pics you might find cool. Remember that Ecuador, and Quito is one of the poorest countries in Latinamerica in economical terms, but one of the richest ones in culture...

http://www.viaggiaresempre.it/07San%20Francesco.jpg

http://www.zlm-concept.org/voyages/equateu...o-pichincha.jpg

http://www.vozandes.org/modules/jornadashv...uador/quito.jpg

http://www.enjoyecuador.net/espanol/multim.../basilica07.jpg

http://inkasperu.com/tours/jpg_files/jpg_p...uador/quito.jpg

http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/anteriores.../imgs/quito.jpg

http://70.67.36.50/web_pics/images/users/l...samer/quito.jpg

[marcelo]

How about that TV ad for playstation which was made in downtown Rio?

People Pyramid

[Ruso]

Havent heard from it...how is it? I know that Puerto Rico has some very cool cities

[Ruso]

Latin America, has in fact a lot of cities that could be perfect for adveture games or more. In fact, many of them, due the so diverse american enviroments, have been constucted over mountains (Quito), or other very different conditions. Most of them are not as symmetrical as other first world countries'cities, and are full of shortcuts, ups and downs, lost neighborhoods, very high avenues, etc.