Rehabitar la Montaña: strategies and processes for sustainable communities in the mountainous periphery of Medellín

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A report on a four-phase research and implementation proposal to anticipate and mitigate landslide risk in low-income settlements on the mountainous urban periphery of Medellín, Colombia. A collaboration between a team of landscape architects from Germany and urbanists in Medellín proposes five pilot projects testing risk-mitigation strategies: monitoring and early-warning systems, drainage improvements, urban agriculture, slope forestation, and site development with basic services.