We must build the city through housing to address the country's housing deficit. Above all, we need not just “houses” but compact housing developments equipped with infrastructure, services, public facilities, and public spaces, featuring highly diverse housing typologies to accommodate a wide variety of family arrangements. The current incentives driving urban land speculation must be redirected through an Urban Reform.
The alliance of the city and the concept never identifies them, but it moves toward their progressive symbiosis: planning the city is both thinking the very plurality of the real and giving effectiveness to this thinking of the plural; it is knowing how and being able to articulate – Michel de Certeau, in The Practice of Everyday Life: 1. Arts of Doing
