Third World Cities Insights. Urban dynamics, composition and practice initiatives.

By the year 2050, 75 percent of the eight billion earth’s inhabitants will be urban, a figure totally away to last century situation (just a decade ago) considering that 90 percent used to live in small villages or at country side. (Burdet, 2007) Nowadays, 70 percent Latin-American and 80 percent European inhabitants live in cities. Particularly at third world real scenario, 13 Latin-American cities have more than three million inhabitants, 9 of them have more than five million and 4 of them have more than ten million.1 Even when humans control the natural world by creating the artificial, by designing tools and artefacts, including buildings, social institutions, and symbol systems2, uncontrolled phenomena appear constantly, but we do not find enough time to generate particular solutions, it seems, trend is following the easiest way, forcing newcomers and people to adapt themselves to built environments supposedly suited to the average.3 Then patterns resulting from the fast-evolving global network are shaping citie