ReVista Launch: Transportation

Date: 

Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 1:00pm to 2:15pm


For a recording of this event, please click here.

How to get from here to there? What does it mean to have sustainable transportation serving all in Latin America’s cities and countryside? Practitioners and academics look at the challenges in the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, which focuses on transportation and mobility in the Americas.

Speakers: Maria Elena Acuña M.,social anthropologist at the Universidad de Chile; Roberto Aguerrebere, former Managing Director, Mexican Transportation Institute; Carolyn Angius, an urban planner based in Los Angeles, California; Arturo Ardila-Gomez, Global Lead Urban Mobility & Lead Transport Economist, World Bank; Bernardo Baranda Sepúlveda, professor, Master Program in Urbanism, UNAM (Mexico City); Agustín Bustos, senior researcher at the Mexican Transportation Institute; Juan Pablo Caicedo, Project Manager at Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano, Bogotá, Colombia; Ignacio Cardona, Ph.D. Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2021; Cheo Carvajal, director of the NGO Laboratory City and Observatory of the Night (Caracas, Venezuela); Julio D. Dávila is Professor of Urban Policy and International Development, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, London, England; Jose De León, Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Julie Gamble, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies, Trinity College Professor, Social Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador); Cristián García Loaiza, photographer, Sonsón, Colombia; Luis A. Guzman, Associate Professor, School of Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia); Aron Lesser, graduate student of Urban Planning and the Mexican Cities Initiative research affiliate, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design; Ted Macdonald, Lecturer in Social Studies, and a Faculty Affiliate with DRCLAS at Harvard University; Daniel Martínez García, author, Masters in International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2021; Rafael Marengoni, urban designer at Sasaki, Master in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Megan Monteleone, Harvard College 2016, student, Georgetown University Law Center; Jorge Mujica-Urzúa, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), Santiago de Chile; Daniel Oviedo, Assistant Professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of University College London; Juan Villalón Hernando, Master in Urban Design candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Moderated by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design

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