“Lessons from Casa Taft: the role of NGOs in recovery efforts”
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After years working as an anthropologist, Marina enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico’s Graduate Planning School where she discovered her passion for urbanism. She later attained an …
“Feminist care and recovery planning in Loiza”
Jenifer de Jesús
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Maritza Hernandez—Urbe Apie
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Maritza Hernandez Colon lived in Caguas most of her life, and loves her city. In 1975 she left her hometown to attend Yale University in New Haven, CT where she studied languages, anthropology, and Latin …
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Lyvia Rodriguez –ENLACE Project
Informality and bottom up planning. How people themselves have taken up the role of plan making and taken over urban land to assert their right to the city—the case of El Cano Community Land Trusts.…
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Lucilla Fuller Marvel has practiced urban and social planning, housing and community development in Puerto Rico for over 50 years, has authored onumerous publications, including Listen to What They Say: Planning and Community Development in Puerto Rico, was a …
Ivis Garcia, AICP, PhD – University of Utah
“Official stories of planning” —4 plans for Puerto Rico
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Dr. Ivis Garcia will outline key planning processes shaping Puerto Rico’s housing, economic development, and infrastructure after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. …
Angeliz Encarnación Burgos, PhD – University of Puerto Rico:
“The “M” districts and the production of space: understanding San Juan’s Unevenness”
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“The “M” districts and the production of space: understanding San Juan’s Unevenness”
The 1940s marked the …
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Deepak Lamba-Nieves is the research director & Churchill G. Carey, Jr. Chair in Economic Development Research at the Center for a New Economy (CNE). He also teaches at the University of Puerto Rico’s Graduate School of Planning. Lamba-Nieves has …
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W.F. Santiago-Valles has traveled in the Caribbean archipelago, Central and South America, Africa, North America and Europe since the 1970s as a foreign correspondent, teacher, guest lecturer, researcher and doctoral dissertation jury. Since 1980 he has been a university …
