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Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America

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Lucy Budd, De Montfort University, UK

Michela Le Pira, University of Catania, Italy

Becky Loo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Corinne Mulley, University of Sydney, Australia

John Nelson, University of Sydney, Australia

Joachim Scheiner, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

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Transport and Sustainability Volume 12

Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America: Evidence, Concepts, Methods

Dr Daniel Oviedo

University College London, UK

Dr Natalia Villamizar Duarte

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Dr Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Contents

List of Figures and tables

List of Contributors

Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil

Bruna Barradas Cordeiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil

Julio D. Dávila, University College London, UK

Daniela de los Santos, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay

Gabriela Cicci Faria, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil

Friederike Fleischer, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Marcos Fontoura de Oliveira, Transport and Transit Company of Belo Horizonte, BH-TRANS., Brazil

Ivis García, University of Utah, USA

Luis Ángel Guzmán, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Laíse Lorene Hasz Souza e Oliveira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil

Diego Hernández, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay

Keuntae Kim, University of Utah, USA

Luiza Morena Alves Lopes, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil

Enery López-Navarrete, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Karen Lucas, University of Manchester, UK

Beatriz Mella Lira, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Daniel Oviedo, University College London, UK

Norma I. Peña-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Lake Sagaris, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Ivette S. Sepúlveda Sanabria, Fundación Universitaria San Alfonso, Colombia

Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Natalia Villamizar Duarte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Editor Biographies

Daniel Oviedo is an Assistant Professor at the Development Planning Unit of University College London. He is a Civil Engineer and Urban Development Planner with over 10 years of experience in urban transport in Global South cities. His research focusses on accessibility, inequality, social exclusion, informal transport and sustainability. He leads INTALInC in Latin America.

Natalia Villamizar Duarte is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has worked in urban design, urban planning and policymaking for over 15 years. Her work focusses on processes and practices of governing, public space and urban mobility, planning of urban borders and community–university partnerships.

Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is a sociologist with over 20 years of experience in urban sociology, urban planning and mobility. Her work focusses on public space, sociability and urban mobility policy in Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.

Contributor Biographies

Bruna Barradas Cordeiro holds a Master’s in Sociology from Participatory Planning Geographical Information System (PPGIS)/Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG in the research field of Urban Sociology, and a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences from the same university. Currently, she is a Researcher at the Center of Urban Studies at UFMG, working with urban mobility, hawkers and informal economy in mobility spaces.

Julio D. Dávila is a Professor of Urban Policy and International Development, and a Director of the Development Planning Unit, University College London. He is a civil engineer and urban development planner with 30 years’ international experience in research and consultancy. His research focusses on local government and social and political transformations, and governance of urban infrastructure.

Daniela de los Santos is a Sociologist. She is a Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Development Studies-Uruguay (CIEDUR), Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay and a Research Assistant at the Catholic University of Uruguay. Her fields of interest are gender and economic inequalities, public policy, social science methodology and urban studies.

Gabriela Cicci Faria holds a Master’s in Urban Sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and is a Social Psychologist graduated from the same institution. Her main themes of interest in research are urban mobility, gender, space and subjectivity.

Friederike Fleischer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her books include Suburban Beijing (2010) and Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand (2018). She recently published ‘Atravesando la Ciudad ….’ (EURE, 2019) and ‘The Normalization of Bogota Social Housing Residents …’ (City & Society, forthcoming).

Marcos Fontoura De Oliveira is a Civil Engineer and an Urbanist in the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has a Master’s in Public Administration from the João Pinheiro Foundation and a Doctorate in Social Sciences from PUC-Minas. He is an advisor to the Presidency of the Empresa de Transportes e Trânsito de Belo Horizonte, BH-TRANS.

Dr Ivis García is originally from Puerto Rico. She is an Assistant Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. She is a National Institute for Transportation and Communities Researcher. Her work has been published in Urban Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, among other urban planning journals.

Luis Ángel Guzmán is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at Universidad de los Andes. His research interests include urban mobility, transport and land-use interaction and social and economic analysis of inequalities related to urban transport and policy evaluation.

Laíse Lorene Hasz Souza e Oliveira holds Master’s in Sociology from PPGS/Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in the research field of Urban Sociology and Bachelor’s in Social Sciences from the same university. Presently, she is a Researcher at the Center of Urban Studies at UFMG, working with urban mobility and waiting spaces.

Diego Hernández is an Associate Professor, at the Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He develops research on transport, mobility, social exclusion and equity, including topics like spatial accessibility, affordability and gender. He has published his research work in scientific journals and has worked as a consultant for national and international institutions.

Keuntae Kim is a PhD student at the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning and holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from Seoul National University, and another Master’s degree in Urban Design from School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Luiza Morena Alves Lopes completed her graduation in Occupational Therapy (2012) and MSc in Sociology (2018) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Since 2012, she works as Occupational Therapist at the Universal Health System with mentally suffering individuals, including participating in the closing process of the last Psychiatric Hospital of Belo Horizonte.

Enery López-Navarrete is an Early Childhood Specialist with studies in Urban Planning from Graduate School of Planning, UPR. Her work focusses on weaving children’s play into communities. Her favourite places to do research include sidewalks, streets and unused spaces to visibilize children in open public spaces.

Karen Lucas is a Professor of Transport and Social Analysis at the Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds and a Deputy Director of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute. She has 20 years of experience in social research in transport. She is a world-leading expert in the area of transport-related social exclusion. She is also the Director of INTALInC.

Beatriz Mella Lira is Postdoctoral Researcher at the BRT+ Centre of Excellence, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a former PhD Researcher at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She has recently co-edited the book A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity (Edward Elgar Publishing).

Norma I. Peña-Rivera, PhD, is a Professor and a Director of the Graduate School of Planning at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her research areas include transportation and land-use planning, spatial decision support systems and social exclusion by mobility.

Lake Sagaris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development CEDEUS, BRT+ Centre of Excellence. She holds a PhD in Planning and Geography. She specialises in collaborative governance, transport justice and walk–bike–bus sustainability trio from a gender and equity perspective.

Ivette S. Sepúlveda Sanabria is a Professor of Social Work at Fundación Universitaria San Alfonso, Colombia. Her research is about care policies and the care economy. Her publications include ‘Políticas sobre el cuidado en Bogotá…’ (Trabajo Social, 2017) and Se nos va el cuidado, se nos va la vida… (2018).

Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, CEDEUS, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a PhD in Transport Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and he was a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. His main research interests are accessibility, affordability, equity, poverty and transport justice.

Prologue

Acknowledgements

The culmination of this publication is the result of a collective effort of a wide network of academics, citizens and professionals concerned with understanding the links between urban mobility and social equity. Such network is the result of the collaboration of researchers, universities and research centres, development agencies, public and private institutions, non-governmental organisations and citizens of countries across Latin America and beyond. By committing research, financial, logistical support, translation, editorial and affective support, each one of these individuals and organisations has made this book possible. We express our sincere thanks to each and all of them.

We also want to thank researchers, friends and colleagues of the Latin American Branch of the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities, INTALInC LAC. This network has offered us, the editors and contributors, a space for voicing debates and exploring the implications for transport planning and urban mobility and their interaction with other dimensions of planning. We thank the members of the network who actively engaged in the production of this book. We also express our gratitude to the editorial and logistic team at Emerald for their undying support in editing and publishing the final product, with a great interest in contributing to the production of knowledge in Latin America. Finally, to our readers, thank you for the opportunity to share our research with you and for continuing expanding the interest in social research in urban mobility in Latin America and the Global South.