Presently, architects are questioning the organization and design of the places and buildings we live in. This imperative has taken traction because of our present global juncture, and because architects fulfill a very important role in our domestic lives since ancient times. In defining and designing suburban neighborhoods and the homes therein, there are a number of forces that establish their typologies. These forces can range from the reach toward sustainability and affordability, to homelessness and suburban sprawl. In order to comprehensively assess how these typologies emerge as a result of such forces, it is important to embrace both a global and a local perspective. Learning from Lima is an attempt to trace some of the most significant forces that have given rise to the typologies of low-income suburban neighborhoods in one of the largest cities in Peru and the Americas, and to articulate architectural lessons from this tracing and analysis locally.
