Infinite City
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In the 70s, Lima was in a period of rapid growth: new neighborhoods would emerge overnight, and the Peruvian capital was becoming the labyrinthine city of 9 million people it is today. In the midst of development arrived Oliver Perrottet, a young Swiss, proposing an impossible scheme: to undertake the mapping of a never-ending city like Lima.
You can read a Spanish transcript here, or an English translation here.
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