Tijuana Case Study Tactics of Invasion: Manufactured Sites

Teddy Cruz describes how his practice in San Diego has used its experience of Mexican/US border conditions to inform a project of ‘urban acupuncture’ that has the potential to bridge the enormity of a transnational divide that exists between two adjacent communities. In essence a simple prefabricated aluminium frame, Manufactured Sites could provide the much‐needed, small‐scale infrastructures and services for favela‐like settlements. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.