Our ESDLA researcher Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz defended his doctoral dissertation “Reterritorializing conflicting urban natures: Socio-ecological inequalities and the politics of Spatial Planning in Bogotá” on March 12th, 2021. We are gladly sharing in this post the record of the public examination event that had around 60 persons following online. The Opponent in the public examination […]
Our colleague and member of ESDLA, Mariana Galvão Lyra, was interviewed by the Finnish journal Helsingin Sanomat (HS) on the Covid-19 situation in Brazil. In the HS article, Mariana explains that the collapse was expected in Brazil’s highly unequal society. President Jair Bolsonaro ’s depreciation of the pandemic has only made things worse. The article’s […]
In his doctoral dissertation, M.Sc. Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz argues that the environmental conflicts related to spatial planning and urbanization open opportunities to create more just spaces to rethink planning as a collective political task aiming for more democratic practices, and not only as of the duty of planners. By analyzing the environmental conflict cases such […]