Former mayor Sergio Fajardo and Alejandro Echeverri
medellin, architecture, fajardo, echeverri
Medellin was once known as the most dangerous city in the world. Under the leadership of former mayor Sergio Farjardo and the city's former director of urban projects, Alejandro Echeverri, it is now not only a safer place to live but a tourist destination. Their public projects elevated the poorest areas of the city with distinguished museums, libraries, schools, parks, plazas, etc. by mostly contemporary Colombian architects, instilling an extraordinary pride of place in the population of these once crime-ridden neighborhoods.