Sur-Urbano

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“Sur-urbano” is a podcast where we talk to leading scholars, planners and activists on Latin American cities about their work, the cities they love and how to make them better. Produced by the Latin American Cities Working Group, based at UC - Berkeley, and hosted by Isabel Peñaranda Currie. To find out more, or to cohost, reach us at @latam_cities. Made possible thanks to UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies and to the Center of Latin American Studies. Music: Jaime Alejandro Angarita Art: Rachel Meirs - https://www.instagram.com/rachel.meirs/ Production: Francesca Fenzi

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Habitação Social no Brasil: da Lei do Inquilinato ao Minha Casa Minha Vida com Nabil Bonduki

Apr 29 2024 54 mins  
Neste primeiro episódio do Sur_Urbano em português falamos com o professor Nabil Bonduki! Discutimos diversas fases da sua produção acadêmica. Começamos com o livro Origens da Habitação Social no Brasil: Arquitetura Moderna, Lei do Inquilinato e Difusão da casa própria (link abaixo). Em seguida passamos para temas mais contemporâneos, como a reforma do programa Minha Cas

Rent-Seeking Landscapes and Landscapes for Life with Raquel Rolnik

Apr 15 2024 38 mins  
Welcome to Sur-Urbano! Our guest today, Raquel Rolnik, may be known to many of you for her critical scholarship and prominent defense of the right to house and the city: Raquel Rolnick. Based out of Sao Paulo, Raquel is professor at the Architecture and Urbanism Department at the University of São Paulo. She has held various government positions including Director of the Planning

La Nueva Informalidad en Chile: Campamentos, Migrantes y la Lucha por la Vivienda con Miguel Pérez

Mar 27 2024 42 mins  
En 2022 la convención constituyente de Chile presentó la propuesta para una nueva constitución que declaraba, entre otras cosas, el derecho a la vivienda digna y adecuada, al amparo del Estado. Esto iba en contra de décadas de lo que se conoce como el modelo Chileno de vivienda, que fue creado durante la dictadura militar de Pinochet, y fue el primer programa del mundo en subs

The Amazon's Forgotten Cities with Adrián Lerner Patrón

Mar 12 2024 43 mins  
When we think of the Amazon region, I think its fair to say that most of us think of the vast expanses of virgin rainforests, crossed by the largest river who gives the area its name. We don’t usually think of cities. And yet, Amazonia is home to 40 million people, 80% of which live in cities. IN other words, from the perspective of the human population, Amazonia is urban. To dis

Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict with Gabriel Feltran

Feb 22 2024 39 mins  
This episode is about stolen cars, the relationships between illegal and legal markets, and public security in Brazil. We talk to Prof. Gabriel Feltran from Sciences Po about his new book Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict. Stolen Cars is an ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, told by Gabriel and ten other contributors. Through

El Paro como Teoría con Alejandra Azuero-Quijano

Feb 06 2024 42 mins  
¡Bienvenides a nuestra cuarta temporada de Sur-Urbano! Arrancamos con un estallido. El 28 de Abril de 2021, se declaró un paro nacional en Colombia como reacción en contra de una controversial reforma fiscal impulsada por el gobierno de Iván Duque en medio de la pandemia. En todo el país, las calles se llenaron de manifestantes, se escuchaba el eco de los cacerolazos, y duran

The Planning of Palestine: Urban Planning under and as Occupation with Dana Erekat and Eyal Weizman

Dec 28 2023 53 mins  
This episode is about planning in Palestine, and especially Gaza. As you all know, this is a podcast about Latin American Cities. However, right now it seems difficult to talk or think about anything other than the genocide unfolding in Palestine. Many of those of us who think critically about Latin American cities find so many connections between our histories and struggles and th

Visiones sobre el problema de la barriada en Peru con Julio Calderón Cockburn

Nov 29 2023 44 mins  
Sabían que del suelo nuevo generado durante en los últimos 20 años en las principales ciudades de Perú, el 92% ha sido informal? En este episodio - el segundo sobre informalidad en Perú - hablamos con Julio Calderón Cockburn y mi buen amigo Augusto Mendoza sobre la historia, teoría y prácticas que nos ayudan a entender por qué la informalidad es un mecanismo tan predomina

Palestina y América Latina con Pablo Abufom

Nov 07 2023 39 mins  
Este episodio nace de la profunda tristeza ante la tragedia humana en Palestina e Israel – sí, una tragedia que contempla a los civiles de ambos países, y que interplea a millones de personas en todo el mundo. También nace de la rabia ante todas las decisiones hechas hasta el 7 de octubre que llevaron a ese momento, y el revanchismo desmesurado del Estado de Israel, además de

The History of Low-cost Housing and Informality in Peru with Helen Gyger - Part I of 2

Oct 31 2023 47 mins  
The significance of Peruvian history on the topic of informality, however, is not restricted to this nation. Some of the most emblematic experts on informality - from John Turner to Hernando de Soto - came out of reflecting on housing in cities like Lima and Arequipa, before their ideas were exported to Latin America and around the world. Today we talk with University of Technolog