Cities and Mobility
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- October 8, 2026
At what point does a building stop being a building… and start becoming a city?
We can invest millions in a mixed-use project and end up building several worlds that never meet. One entrance for living, another for working, another for shopping and another for parking. Everything works. Everything is properly solved…
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Why do some places make us stay while others only make us pass through?
On one of my trips to Paris I ended up walking near the Seine. I had several places I wanted to see that day and my plan was to keep moving. But at one point I sat down. Just for a few minutes. Or so I thought. Quite a while later I was still there…
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The same street can be three different cities in a single day
On one of my trips to Madrid I left the hotel early because I had a meeting a few hours later. And as I usually do when I'm in another city, I chose to walk. Not because I had to. Because I like to understand a city from the street…
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How do we design and build cities truly for people's everyday life?
Let's think for a moment about an ordinary day. We leave home. Some of us take our kids to school. We go to work. We buy something. We receive a delivery. Nothing extraordinary. It's simply our everyday life…
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How much more can an area grow before it loses what made it attractive?
There are areas we've all watched transform almost without noticing. We come back after a few years and find more buildings, restaurants, retail, offices and people. Land is worth more, new investment appears…
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When who lives in an area changes, everything else changes
There are parts of a city I knew twenty or thirty years ago that work in a completely different way today. When I walk back through some of them, I try not to focus only on the new buildings, land prices or full restaurants…
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Cities with a human sense
Let's think for a moment about the city where we live. How long does it take us to get to work? What do we have nearby? How much do we walk? How much time do we spend each day just getting around? We've grown so used to…
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We design cities without understanding how they work... Retail without understanding how the city moves, and Logistics without understanding either
For years we've specialized in doing our own part better and better. If we develop real estate, we study land, regulations, demand, product and returns. If we do retail, we analyze location, traffic, consumer, competition…
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Why Do Some Cities Invite Us to Walk and Enjoy Them, While Others Make Walking Difficult?
There are cities where you can walk for twenty minutes without noticing. And there are others where, after five minutes, you're already wondering why you didn't drive. For a long time…
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The Biggest Problem With Our Cities Isn't How They Grow. It's How We Decide They Should Grow.
I'm more and more convinced that a city isn't built when construction begins. It's built much earlier. It's built every time we approve a zoning plan, set a regulation…
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We've Spent Years Designing Cities We Never Learned to Read
How can anyone design a city without first learning to read it? I don't mean reading blueprints. Or indicators. Or renderings. I mean something far more important:…
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The Problem Isn't That Cities Keep Growing.
For years we've talked about urban growth as if it were the great challenge of our time. I don't think it is. Cities will keep growing. The population will keep…
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I Believe We've Spent Years Misunderstanding What a Sustainable City Really Means.
For years I thought a sustainable city was one that: Used less energy. Had more certified buildings. More electric vehicles. More solar panels. And…
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The City After the Metro
The pattern I found studying some of the world's most admired cities. For a long time I thought great urban transformations began with a major infrastructure…
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While Many Are Still Designing Buildings, the World's Most Advanced Cities Are Already Designing Urban Ecosystems
Something is quietly changing in the world's most innovative cities. And yet we still talk very little about it. For decades we developed projects by asking…
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The Most Valuable Thing a Metro Builds Isn't Underground
For a long time I thought a metro's greatest impact was cutting travel times. It was the most obvious explanation. Move more people. Reduce congestion.…
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Are We Evolving or Devolving as a City?
For decades we convinced ourselves we were evolving. We built taller buildings. Wider highways. Sprawling subdivisions. Bigger malls. Increasingly…
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Europe Already Changed the Question. Why Is Latin America Still Answering the Old One?
For years we've had the same conversation on repeat. That housing is scarce. That traffic keeps getting worse. That traditional retail is disappearing. That commute times keep…
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The City of the Future Might Look a Lot More Like the 1980s Neighborhood Than We Imagine
When we picture the city of the future, we usually imagine smart buildings, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, or delivery drones. Yet, after…
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Building Buildings Is No Longer Enough: Lima Needs Projects That Build City
There are cities you remember with a feeling that's hard to put into words. Not necessarily because of the tallest building, or the most striking facade, or the most…
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The Future of Real Estate Projects Won't Sit on Top of the City… It Will Connect Beneath It
For decades, much of real estate development in Latin America focused on what's visible. More height. More square meters. More amenities. More architectural impact.…
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Architecture No Longer Designs Buildings. Today It Reads Urban Systems
For a long time, much of architecture focused on designing objects. Iconic buildings. Memorable facades. Volumes built to stand out on the skyline. And I'm not…
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No Road Infrastructure Can Sustain a Fragmented City
You can build more roads. More bypasses. More overpasses. More interchanges. But if housing, jobs, retail, services, logistics, education, and healthcare keep drifting…
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Lima's Urban Value Has Already Started Shifting Around Metro Line 2
Some time ago I began working on a very ambitious project around the Evitamiento Station on Lima Metro Line 2, with one clear idea in mind. I didn't want to develop…
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Time Is Becoming the Most Valuable Asset in Cities
After traveling through different cities and studying how their urban dynamics are evolving, one idea keeps getting clearer to me: the most competitive cities of the future…
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While the World Designs Cities Around Mobility… Lima Keeps Improvising
For years, in Lima we let the market decide where to grow. And afterward… we tried to figure out how to move millions of people within that model. First we built.…
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Some Areas of Lima No Longer Need a Diagnosis… They Need Decisions
Walking through the city, I've realized there are areas that no longer need more analysis. They need clarity. They need direction. Evitamiento and Nicolás Ayllón is one…
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What Madrid Understood in Time… Lima Still Doesn't Want to See at Evitamiento
Madrid Nuevo Norte isn't the model… but it explains why some nodes change a city before the market ever catches on. For years we've believed real estate value lives in…
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Lima: Turning Its Back on the Sea… and Now on Its River and Its Metro Too
For years it was said that Lima lived with its back to the sea. And it was true. The city grew ignoring its most valuable edge… until it finally turned to face it and turned it into one of…
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What Buenos Aires Already Went Through… Lima Still Hasn't Fully Grasped
There are cities that have already been through this. Buenos Aires. Santiago. Bogotá. Not as theory. As reality. In Buenos Aires, the subway's expansion didn't just improve mobility…
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Lima Stopped Growing Like a Neighborhood
If you develop, invest in or analyze real estate in Lima, there's something you can no longer ignore: 👉 the city stopped growing like a neighborhood. And that completely changes how you should…
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What Happened to Lima… and When Did We Stop Building City?
Lima didn't become chaotic overnight. It wasn't one bad call. It wasn't a single flawed decision. It was something more complex. It was the sum of many decisions… and, above all,…
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