Luisa Sotomayor
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- 📣 Call for proposals! Join us in Bogotá on August 21–22 for the Vertical Peripheries workshop, which explores high-rise housing and urban transformation at the margins. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: July 1 📍CIDER, Uniandes 🔗 www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
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- 3 cities, 3 cases: how VIS towers reshape Colombia’s metropolitan edges. Nuestro primer #ArcGIS #StoryMap explora las #PeriferiasVerticales y la política de densificación en los bordes. 🗺️ Diseño: Federico Arévalo, CITY Institute @cityinstitute.bsky.social 👉 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9959...
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- We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...
- Excited about my new books to read on my daily commute to @cityinstitute.bsky.social: @javierauyero.bsky.social’s and Sofia Servian’s ‘Squatter Life’, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero’s ‘Class meets land’ and Premilla Nadasen ‘Care: the highest stage of capitalism’.
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- Reposted by Luisa SotomayorJOIN US! March 31, 12 PM -1:30 PM "Seeing Democracy Like a City" with CITY's 2025 Senior Visiting Scholar Ross Beveridge @uofglasgow.bsky.social With @sergemont.bsky.social and Peggie Kohn @utsc.bsky.social To register: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
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- New paper! With Ryan Whitney, we examined how Medellin’s electric escalators were mobilized to #CDMX as a best practice. Despite poor implementation, political actors benefited as they played the politics of visibility. Free to download until Feb 2: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
- In #Toronto, a top-down anti-bike lane agenda is unfolding via a Provincial bill that undermines municipal planning and endangers lives—but @cycletoronto.bsky.social is fighting back. Please support!
- As @sergemont.bsky.social, Natalia Angel-Cabo, and I have argued, legal mobilization is increasingly used to contest urban planning agendas. Judges are becoming key actors in urban governance. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #UrbanPolitics #LegalMobilization #Toronto
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- We need this. Go @maritstilesndp.bsky.social
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- Adding to the list the complete disregard for local democracy and civic participation, and the overriding of municipal autonomy on areas where cities have admin responsibilities. Anti-model of democratic governance too.
- These days Toronto feels like the anti-model of contemporary urban planning: removing bike lanes, spending billions to rehabilitate a downtown highway, decommissioning an entire subway line, no opening date for a light rail project 13 years in the making. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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- Reposted by Luisa Sotomayorpls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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