Published in the journal CITY, the article ‘When the (face)mask slips: politics, performance and crisis in urban Brazil‘ had the highest Altmetric score for 2021. This means that the article received the most overall attention […]
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre, directed by Professor Gareth Jones, is to host a roundtable event on 22 October 2020, titled “Infrastructure in Latin America: from the investment gap to spending efficiency”. It brings […]
UPD cluster staff Dr Hyun Bang Shin and Dr Austin Zeiderman will lead the summer school course, ‘An Urbanising World: The Future of Global Cities’. The course will run 18 June – 6 July 2018. […]
UPD cluster Research Student Mara Nogueira-Teixeira recently won the ‘Best Paper at the PhD Level’ in the Latin America Specialty Group’s competition at the AAG annual meeting in Boston, April 2017. Mara’s paper is entitled: ‘Conserving […]
Event Description: UPD Seminar by Prof Mercedes González de la Rocha (CIESAS del Occidente, Mexico), 8 November 2016 Contributed by Ulises Moreno Prof Mercedes González de la Rocha was introduced warmly by her long-time colleague […]
Dr Hyun Bang Shin has recently guest-edited, with Ernesto López-Morales (University of Chile, Santiago) and Loretta Lees (Leicester), a special issue of the Urban Geography journal, ‘Latin American Gentrifications’. This is now available online, and the detailed table […]
Pablo Navarrete, PhD candidate in Regional and Urban Planning, has received a prestigious prize from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) for their international competition ‘Habitat and Urban Development’. The prize is worth US$15,000 and […]