As composting modules are sprouting up throughout Cusco’s historic neighborhoods and new archetype maps are being made available to planners, academics, and community members as a result of the Ecocity Builders-facilitated Secondary Cities (2C) pilot, Team Urbinsight thought it would be the perfect time to...
With a growing population, increasing consumption, and accompanying high rates of solid waste, Cusco’s historic inner city neighborhoods have increasingly been feeling the need for the kind of in-depth accounting of conditions on the ground that is required to institute a holistic solution to their...
Have you ever run across an advertisement saying dirt is good? Have you ever wondered what would need to happen for garbage to be considered beneficial?Well, garbage is just garbage until it is turned into a valuable resource. In the case of organic waste, this...
We are recently back from Santa Fe, Argentina, where, under the Secondary Cities program of the US Office of the Geographer, Ecocity Builders teamed up with a local NGO, the Mayor’s office, and the local public university to host a three-day technical workshop on urban...