Mapping Favelas… whether they like it or not

*I wonder how many people living in favelas can read and comprehend this kind of Ivy League archispeak. More than you might think, I reckon. Given that architects exist in legions and are hard-put to get any honest work in a real-estate crash, there must be rather a lot of architecture graduates haunting "informal housing" these days.

*The key to understanding favelas is not that there are poor people in there; it's that poor people are being *compressed* in there by the organizational...