The DNA of Amazonian Cities - Part I

Did you know that over 70% of the 50 million people living in the Amazon live in cities? 

We were honoured to be invited by the Amazonia Forever team at the Inter-American Development Bank (the IDB) to work with them on a series of The DNA of Cities episodes about Amazonian cities. This is the first time that we have taken the idea of The DNA of Cities to look at a group of cities and we were really excited to do this in such an important part of our world.

Over three episodes, we convene seven experts on Amazonian cities, archaeology, anthropology, indigeneity, history, political economy and political ecology. We are incredibly grateful to Dr Adrián Lerner Patrón, Professor Eduardo Góes Neves, Ana María Durán Calisto, Dr Tatiana Schor, Professor Felipe Correa, Isabel Peñaranda Currie and Professor Saint-Clair Trindade Jr for joining us to decode The DNA of Amazonian Cities. 

In this episode, we turn to the dark soils of the forest to unearth the ancient traits and characteristics of cities in the Amazon: The cities of the world’s largest tropical rainforest and the world’s longest and most powerful rivers. 

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