Category: Urban Design
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The following project is an ongoing experimental proposal that considers the need to incorporate small scale forums to reflect on themes around ecology and sustainability…
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The Maya Train. This was the most ambitious infrastructure project of the federal government that ruled Mexico from 2018 to 2024. The project covers a…
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In January 2023 a long awaited urban project was inagurated in Mexico City. An elevated pedestrian corridor that connects two sections of Chapultepec, one of…
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I am happy to share my latest research paper. It is called Cartographies of Infrastructural Imaginations: Mapping Ecological Utopias and Dystopias in the Global South.…
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You can find below my latest collaboration in the Proceedings of the International Conference Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental ResilienceEditor: Anastasia Karandinou Published in…
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“Calling this place ‘America’ is to name it after a stranger. ‘Turtle Island’ is the name given this continent by Native American based on creation…
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The picture below is a view from my apartment in China, where I lived from 2017 to 2020. Electrify Everything is the title of one…
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Gasoline stations have been objects of interest in the fields of architecture and urban studies for decades. Frank Lloyd Wright completed the R. W. Lindholm Service Station in…
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The year is 2021. Mexico City and its immediate surroundings have experienced a persistent ecocide on their lands and bodies of water for at least…
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Mapping. I truly believe that hybrid methods of mapping help to achieve better architecture and ecological design. For nearly a decade I have studied the…
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Every time I come across the topic of sustainable urban mobility, walkability is treated as a key factor to improve our experience in cities. However,…
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On certain occasions, words used in the mass media capture the spirit of the times. The term Eco-Anxiety is all over the news. It is…
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Sustainable Orientalism. I have explored this concept since 2011. It has helped me to identify and expose discourses, representations, and institutions that separate the notion…
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Urban Constellations. This is a common metaphor that I have encountered in the fields of human geography and urban studies. The most comprehensive set of…
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Environmental Sciences-Architecture-Urban Design. Over the last two years, I have explored this approach with my experience as Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, and as Senior Lecturer in…