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From Demands to Prefiguration. History of the Right to the City in Latin America
The article sets out to trace a conceptual history of the right to the city in Latin America. Based on a critical reading of Lefebvre's work, the essay reconstructs the theoretical frameworks that accompany the practical ...
First Latin American to Win the New York City MarathonNewa from Latin America
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, 2018)
Buses or trams for Latin America's cities?
(ECLAC, 2003-04)
There was a time when tram services were critical to public transport in many of the largest cities of Latin America; however, trams disappeared about fifty years ago, for a number of reasons. They are back now, especially ...
From city to region in planning Latin America’s capital cities, 1920-1950
(International Planning History Society, 2008)
Is city-level travel time by car associated with individual obesity or diabetes in Latin American cities? Evidence from 178 cities in the SALURBAL project
(Elsevier, 2022)
There is growing evidence that longer travel time by private car poses physical and mental risks. Individual-level obesity and diabetes, two of the main public health challenges in low- and middle-income contexts, could ...
Latin American Cities Are Problem-RiddenLatin American issues
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, 2018)
Educational inequalities in obesity: a multilevel analysis of survey data from cities in Latin America
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
OBJECTIVE: Using newly harmonised individual-level data on health and socio-economic environments in Latin American cities (from the Salud Urbana en America Latina (SALURBAL) study), we assessed the association between ...
Mortality amenable to healthcare in Latin American cities: a cross-sectional study examining between-country variation in amenable mortality and the role of urban metrics
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
BACKGROUND: This study examined the variation in city-level amenable mortality, i.e. mortality due to conditions that can be mitigated in the presence of timely and effective healthcare, in 363 Latin American cities and ...
La malla urbana en la ciudad colonial iberoamericana
Este texto presenta algunas de las ideas desarrolladas enla disertación concluida en 2003, como requisito para obtenerla Maestría en Teoría Historia y Crítica de la Facultad deArquitectura, Universidade Federal do Rio ...