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«Una Lima para todos»: El programa de vivienda de Huaycán y la política urbana de la Izquierda Unida, 1983-1985
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-30)
In 1984, in the context of Peru’s internal armed conflict between the Shining Path and the State (1980-2000), Lima’s socialist mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán decreed the creation of Huaycán, the first housing project ...
Los mototaxis del Perú y las contradicciones de la «(in)formalidad» y «modernidad»
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-30)
This article offers an ambitious, though still fragmented, history of motorcycle taxis in Peru. It offers three central arguments. First, it highlights that motorcycle taxi drivers have played a fundamental role in the ...
El Cabildo y el visitador: la reforma de policía en Lima, 1784-1787
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-10-03)
The Bourbon reforms sparked a political struggle between the local elite and the Spanish officials commissioned to execute them. This is a key issue since, in the long term, successful implementation relied on a coincidence ...