1 Functional Reuse and Intensification of Rural-Urban Context: Rural Architectural Urbanism Tiziano Cattaneo, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Roberto De Lotto, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Elisabetta Maria Venco, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia,...

Since the 1980s, municipality of San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, has been a territory with constant clashes between its rural population and official land use policy. In this context, community millenary bio-cultural traditions have collided neoliberal political economic interests, new urbanism, speculation, commodification local culture privatization public space. The above-mentioned facts represe...

The rapid growth of the built environment has been pointed out as one of the major challenges to sustainability in the US. Low density “sprawling” neighborhoods represent the most undesired form of urban growth both for the waste of land and energy they cause, as well as for the lack of a “sense of place” they promote among their inhabitants. Several critiques to such type of urbanization have ...