Crossing City Limits

A conversation with Walter Hood about Black landscapes matter, difference, sameness postcolonial, and cultural aspects of design.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.17 Walter Hood, Black landscapes matter / OaklandOakland soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero.Biography:Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally.He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League’s President’s Medal award.Source: https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/teamEducation:Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. North Carolina A&T State University. 1981.Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture. The University of California, Berkeley. 1989.Master of Fine Arts. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2013.Studio arts and sculpture, exploring the role of sculpture and urbanism.Workplace: Hood Design Studio, Oakland, California.Current city: OaklandWeb: https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/Websites of interest: TED talk: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community.https://www.ted.com/talks/walter_hood_how_urban_spaces_can_preserve_history_and_build_community?subtitle=enGSD, Harvardhttps://aadn.gsd.harvard.edu/people/walter-hood/Instagram: Hood Design Studiohttps://www.instagram.com/hooddesignstudio/?hl=enPublications:_Black Landscapes Matter. Edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada.University of Virginia Press (December 9, 2020)Buy the book here:https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5389/https://www.amazon.com/Black-Landscapes-Matter-Walter-Hood/dp/0813944864ASLA, award of excellencehttps://www.asla.org/2021awards/2794.html_Urban Diaries. Spacemaker Press, 1997._Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations. Poltroon Press, 1993.Key words:black lives matter, black landscapes matter, urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, postcolonial, heritage, memory, race, stewardship, art, culpture, California, Oakland, Berkeley, Community WhispererEpisode production:Soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero.Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.comPlease subscribe on your favorite platforms.CrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeAugust ‘24

A conversation with urban designer Daniel Parolek about Missing middle housing, and the car-free urban housing project Culdesac.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. 16 Daniel Parolek, Missing middle housing / BerkeleyBerkeley soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero. Biography:Dan is an architect, urban designer, and the founding principal of Opticos Design, which has grown into a nationally sought-after company of thought leaders in urban placemaking, innovative housing design and policy, and zoning reform. He has been featured in many high-profile publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NextCity, and Professional Builder. Dan coined the term Missing Middle Housing and is a champion of the now-international Missing Middle Housing movement. He recently presented on the topic at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Dan also co-authored the book, “Form Based Codes,” which Planetizen called “one of the top planning books of 2007” and co-founded the non-profit think tank, the Form-Based Code Institute. He released the book Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis, also a top urban planning book of 2020. In 2023, Dan was voted one of Planetizen’s 100 Most Influential Urbanists, Past and Present.His innovative work is diverse across public and private sector clients and includes the master plan, building type design, and architecture for Culdesac Tempe, which will be the largest car-free community in the country when completed; the country’s first Missing Middle Neighborhood in the Omaha, Nebraska metro; a citywide Missing Middle Plan for Sacramento, California; one of the most advanced applications of Form-Based Coding in Cincinnati, Ohio; and a sustainable growth strategy for Libreville, the capital city of Gabon, Africa.Prior to founding Opticos Design, Daniel worked with Robert A.M. Stern in New York City on a broad range of projects including a professional baseball stadium and homes for Michael Eisner and Jon Bon Jovi. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Urban Design from the University of California at Berkeley. Daniel loves to travel internationally, particularly in Italy.Source: https://opticosdesign.com/about/staff/daniel-parolek/ Education:Master of Urban Design. University of California, Berkeley.Bachelor of Architecture. University of Notre Dame. Workplace: Opticos Design, Berkeley Current city: Berkeley Web: https://opticosdesign.com/ Websites of interest: https://missingmiddlehousing.com/https://courses.planetizen.com/course/missing-middle-housinghttps://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/author/dan-parolekThe 100 Most Influential Urbanists, Past and Present (2023 Planetizen) https://www.planetizen.com/features/124594-100-most-influential-urbanists-past-and-presentX: @DanielParolek Publications:Missing Middle Housing, Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis.Island Press, 2020 Buy the book here:https://islandpress.org/books/missing-middle-housing#desc Form-Based Codes,A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and DevelopersBy Daniel G. Parolek, AIA, Karen Parolek, and Paul C. Crawford, FAICPJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008 Buy the book here:https://www.amazon.com/Form-Based-Codes-Municipalities-Developers/dp/0470049855 Key words:#MissingMiddleHousing #zoningreform #walkableurbanliving #equityparticipatory design, citizen participation, grassroots urbanism, community-based stewardship,car-free, urban housing, California, Berkeley Episode production:Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.comSoundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero. Please subscribe on your favorite platforms.CrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeApril ‘24

A conversation with Abby Ivory and Anna Dorn about Hack-A-House, a “hackathon” style competition for innovative solutions in housing affordability.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.15 Abby Ivory and Anna Dorn, Hack-A-House / Salt Lake City Hack-A-HouseHack-A-House is an annual 24-hour “hackathon” created to engage students in proposing innovative solutions to address the housing affordability crisis. Students are encouraged to engage with peers, our industry experts, and our competition judges in an exploration of housing affordability. Through innovation, participants can help solidify economic opportunity for vulnerable populations in their communities and beyond.Students will receive a prompt at 12pm MT on September 22nd and will have 24 hours to complete and pitch their proposal for an innovative and scalable solution to a prompt in one of the following categories:Construction & DesignFinancePolicy & Regulatory ReformTeams will tailor their solutions to fit their selected theme and participants are encouraged to consider how their solution interacts with existing policy, finance, and/or construction and design practices.Co-sponsors include: The University of Utah, The University of California at Berkeley, The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, The University of Arizona, and The University of Denver.There is no limit to the number of student teams able to participate from each school.Teams may consist of one student and have a maximum of five students.Any student from an accredited college or university is encouraged to participate, no matter their experience of background! Competition judges will be listed on the Hack-A-House website athackahouse.orgIdeas will be judged by their feasibility, uniqueness, and adherence to the prompt released on September 22nd at 12pm MT. Once the competition begins, participants will have access to a wide array of online resources that will help them understand the issue and prepare their presentations. Four prizes will be awarded, totaling $12,000:Overall winner - $5,000Category winner - $3,000Category winner - $3,000People’s choice award - $1,000 Once the competition begins, participants can access a wide array of online resources that will help them tackle the issue and prepare their presentations. These will include links to informative articles and short videos featuring expert practitioners and faculty discussing key issues.BiographyAbby Ivory - Ivory Innovations was born while Abby was working on the Impact Investing team for the Sorenson Impact Center. Prior to her experience in impact investing, she worked as an intern focused on researching Green Bonds with Equilibrium Capital in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Abby graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Utah in 2016 with an emphasis in Sustainability. Anna Dorn - Anna graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in finance and a minor in management. She joined the Ivory Innovations team as a student associate during her junior year of college, then joined the team full time in May 2023. She became more passionate about affordable housing throughout this time and enjoys being able to connect with companies that are truly making a difference. Anna interned for Jones Lang LaSalle on the Salt Lake City capital markets team and served as a mentor for the Goff Strategic Leadership Center. WorkplaceIvory innovations  Hack-A-Househttps://ivoryinnovations.org/hackahouse  Key words:Student competition, housing affordability, housing crisis, innovative solutions, construction and design, Finance, Policy and regulatory reform, teams, sustainability, Utah, Salt Lake City, The University of Utah, The University of California at Berkeley, The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, The University of Arizona, and The University of Denver. Episode production:Soundscapes by Anna Dorn.Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.com Please subscribe on your favorite platforms.CrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeAugust ‘23

A conversation with Landscape architect Hugo Bruley about Paris urban life, constraints and beauty, and the work of HBLA office.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. Paris soundscapes by Hugo Bruley. 14 Hugo Bruley, Landscape architecture / Paris Biography:Hugo Bruley is a French landscape architect and founder of HBLA – Hugo Bruley Landscape Architecture, in Paris.For over a decade, he gained experience working in international landscape architecture firms such as Integrated Design in India, Peter Walker & Partners in San Francisco, or Michel Desvigne in Paris. He has worked on a great number of projects, very diverse in scale and nature. Involved at every stage of the project’s development and implementation, he now has a complete approach of the landscape architecture field. Hugo is also Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Loire Valley Institute of Technology (INSA-ENP) in Blois, France. He previously taught at the University of California, UC Berkeley and the Paris-La Villette Architecture School in Paris. Education:Master of Landscape Architecture · College of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning · University of California, Berkeley · USA · 2011 Master Ingénieur Paysagiste · National School for Higher Studies in Nature and Landscape Architecture · Blois · France · 2008 Office / Workplace:HBLA is a landscape architecture and urban planning office based in Paris.HBLA designers imagine projects in various countries, working alongside public or private entities. Among the office’s core values is the belief that landscape architecture stands as an essential practice to the resolution of some of the most important challenges faced by our societies. It implies a fundamental multidisciplinary approach, which leads us to work with all environmental design practices such as architects, urban designers but also city and traffic planners, artists or even historians. Every project’s challenges design the specific collaboration we aim for. Therefore, the work of the office spans over a wide diversity of projects varying in scale, nature, and context, from large urban and territorial planning studies to the design of public spaces, urban parks, or gardens. Since scales engage with one another, HBLA is focused on maintaining a versatile practice. Reaching far beyond a green trend, the office uses tools of landscape and geography to create strong yet sensitive landscapes through simple but impactful interventions. Each project is an opportunity to (re)connect a site with its identity and larger context. Distinctions & Publications:2020 Oct. · AMC n° 290 · Requalification du Quai de Southampton · Le Havre · France2020 · Equerre d'Argent · Requalification du Quai de Southampton · Le Havre · France · (Hugo Bruley Project Director for MDP)2015 Jan. · AM Architecture du Maroc n°63 · Concours Habitat Durable, Economique et Innovant2015 · AM Architecture du Maroc n°63 · Concours Habitat Durable, Economique et Innovant · first prize2014 · Vision42 Design Competition · New-York · USA · first prize2011 · Everyday Landscape: Designing for informal uses at the edge. The Case of the Mission District San Francisco · Master thesis · UC Berkeley2011 · Geraldine Knight Scott Fellowship2011 · American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) · Merit Award2008 · JOLA Journal of Landscape Architecture · Young Professionals Competition Website:https://hbla-landscape.com/en/projects/  Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/hugobruley_landarch/?hl=fr Key words:Landscape architecture, urban design, sustainability, participatory design, restoration, public space, inhabitants, quality of life, France, Italy, Paris, Tuscany Episode production:Soundscapes by Hugo Bruley.Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.com Please subscribe on your favorite platforms.CrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeJune ‘23

This sound installation represents a collection of audio moments captured within and through the Tucson urban landscape. The collection archives a spatial momentum and proposes an alternative hymn professing what it means to exist, and to sense, in this city. Evoking a sense of place, this installation maps Tucson via the Sunlink streetcar, Tucson’s public transit infrastructure thus rendering audio from its sensorial intensities. Following the Tucson Sunlink streetcar is meant to impress upon visitors of this installation a sense of path. The audio will compress and decompress as the collected material collages and transitions from both day and night, as it speaks to the range of intensities offered to us by this urban landscape. In the presence of these sounds, one might encounter a resonant cadence rooted in Tucson’s urban imaginary. The sound bites collected represent Tucson through the lens of CAPLA’s Urban agency colloquium students. Athba Alradaan + Fatima Alzahraa Alsulaiman S M S, Graphic art. Tabitha Rodriguez, Text. Seunghu Kim + Eduardo Guerrero, Audio edition. Nathan P Morse + Alejandro Villasenor + Tabitha Rodriguez, Production. Eva Rose Serbin + Lauren Marie Hunter, Sundt Gallery. Irena Velickovic, Social media. Jack Thomas Schulman, Audio Path. Eduardo Guerrero M.U.D, Clare Robinson PhD, Beth Weinstein PhD, Instructors. The University of Arizona, School of Architecture, May 2023 #caplaurbandesign

A conversation with associate professor David de la Peña PhD about Participatory design, grassroots urbanism, and community-based stewardship.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.Sacramento soundscapes by David de la Peña.13 David de la Peña PhD, Participatory design / Sacramento Biography:David de la Peña is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design in the Department of Human Ecology, and also a member of the Geography and Community Development Graduate Groups. He received his Masters in Architecture from UT Austin, and his Masters in Urban Design and PhD in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley. His research focuses on participatory design and planning methods, social housing, sustainable architecture, and urban agriculture. Current projects include an analysis and design for urban farms and community gardens in Sacramento, an examination of grassroots urbanism and housing in Barcelona, and a comparative study of community-based stewardship between California and Chile.Source: David de la Peña | Department of Human Ecology (ucdavis.edu)Education:Ph.D., Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. University of California, Berkeley, 2013Master of Urban Design. University of California, Berkeley, 2006.Master of Architecture. University of Texas at Austin, school of Architecture, 1998.Bachelor of Arts, German. California State University, Fullerton, 1994.Workplace: University of California Davis, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental DesignCurrent city: Sacramento/BarcelonaWebsites of interest: https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/david-de-la-penaWeb: David de la Peña – Architect, PhD, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design at UC Davis (daviddelapena.com)Twitter: @dsdelapenaPublications:2017 De la Peña, David, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura Lawson, Marcia McNally, editors. Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Island Press. (2017) Received EDRA / Places Book Award 2018.Journal articles:2020 Boults, Elizabeth and David de la Peña. “Drawn to Place: A Summary of the CELA2019 Sketch Crawl.” In Landscape Journal. 37:2 2018, pp. 137-141.2019* De la Peña, David. “Beyond Guerrilla Urbanism: Can Batlló and the Slowness of Knowing, Managing, and Making.” In Urban Design International, Special Issue: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Social Practice of Urban Design.2015* De la Peña, David, Randolph Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Diane Jones Allen, Laura Lawson. “Together We Design: Landscape architects offer their best techniques for transactive form-making.” Landscape Research Record 03.2015* De la Peña, David. “Edible Sacramento: Soil Born Farms as a community-based approach to expanding urban agriculture” in Keane, Tim, ed., “incite Change | Change insight”. New Prairie Press.2015** De la Peña, David. “New Landscape Urbanisms: Promising new paths for urban design. Journal of Urban Design.2015 Cole-Weiss, Alex and David de la Peña. “International Garden of Many Colors.” The Community Greening Review, Journal of the American Community Garden Association. Volume 20.(*peer-reviewed, **invited)Key words:participatory design, citizen participation, grassroots urbanism, community-based stewardship, urban design, California, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Chile, Villarrica, Lago VillaricaEpisode production:Soundscapes by David de la Peña.Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.comPlease subscribe on your favorite platforms.CrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeApril ‘23

A conversation with Professor Carlos Moreno about the 15-minute city, one of the urban planning concepts embraced by the United Nations Habitat on their latest World Cities Report 2022.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.Paris soundscapes byMémo Dumay, sound artist, musician / Paris https://memodumay.tumblr.com/ 12 Carlos Moreno, 15-minute city / Paris Biography:Carlos Moreno was born in Colombia in 1959 and moved to France at the age of 20. He is a Senior University Professor, an international expert of the Human Smart City, and a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. This scientist and humanist describe his exceptional career as a path guided through and through by passion: a passion not only for innovation, creativity and exploration but also one for sharing, connecting, and building ties with others. A journey on which he has explored a variety of disciplines and fields in a wide range of spheres – teaching, research, business and industry – strong in his conviction that innovation springs from interaction among them.TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTATIONCarlos Moreno swiftly joined France’s scientific community in 1979. In 1983 he became a researcher and lecturer at the IUT in Cachan at the Université de Paris Sud, working in the computer science and robotics laboratory (LIMRO). There, he was a leading figure in robotics, a budding discipline at the time which draws on IT, electronics and mathematics and studies the interface between robots and their environment.Mr. Moreno’s work in robotics and artificial intelligence made him absolutely certain of two things: one, that systems must be designed in terms of complexity (as defined by French thinkers such as Henri Laborit and Edgar Morin), meaning that an entity can only be understood in relation to its environment and must be studied in the context of how it relates to and depends upon other factors; and two, that this ‘complexity’ can be applied in the real world to create value through innovative services and uses. Also during this period, Mr Moreno helped create one of France’s first technology transfer offices in the Paris region, at the CERMA in Cachan.In 1990, after taking part in its creation, he began working at the Université d’Evry, where he became a Senior Professor. While working at the computer sciences lab (LaMI – Laboratoire des Méthodes Informatiques), a joint unit run by the CNRS, he founded and directed the “Distributed Reactive and Adaptive Systems” team and developed extensive ties with industry. In the late 1990s, the creation of Genopole, a biotechnology cluster in Evry, gave scientists, research engineers and entrepreneurs at the university an opportunity to work together despite their different backgrounds and specializations — an approach that Carlos Moreno has tirelessly promoted since.Exploring a system from the viewpoint of complexity means understanding it in context and studying its vitality as manifested in the relationship among its component parts, the energy which creates these, and the changes made in order to establish an equilibrium, extract knowledge, introduce change, make a breakthrough, anticipate a death or predict the emergence of new situations. In 1998, a new law on innovation and research in France (the ‘Allegre Law’) enabled researchers to start their own business. Professor Moreno quickly seized this opportunity to rally his best PhD students, capitalise on the critical mass of knowledge they had generated, and find industrial applications for the expertise acquired through intelligent complex systems. His start-up, Sinovia, was created in 1998. Based at the laboratory, Sinovia centred on the intelligent control of complex systems with an emphasis on infrastructure. Aided by government funding, Sinovia signed its first partnerships with industrial firms. Every project developed by Professor Moreno during this period has since proven pertinent (see below) and revealed his visionary spirit.A pioneer in his field, in 2006 he turned his attention to cities – a complex system par excellence – and developed the concept of the ‘sustainable digital city’ as a viable platform from which to provide the services needed to ensure the well-being of a city’s inhabitants. In this context, Professor Moreno’s start-up began working with INEO, a subsidiary of GDF SUEZ, which acquired Sinovia in 2010.Carlos Moreno became Scientific Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer in charge of strategy for GDF SUEZ’s Smart Cities programme. For five years, he led international efforts to develop the city of the future and created the Live in a Living City forum which brings together experts from around the world to look at how urban environments are changing. Since November 2015, Carlos Moreno has been coaching promising innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs through his consulting firm InTI in order to transmit and grow his assets. Source: https://www.moreno-web.net/portrait-2/ Workplace: University of Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneCurrent city: Paris, FranceWebsites of interest: World Cities Report 2022 https://unhabitat.org/wcr/Article about 15 minute city https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/1/6The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/25/15-minute-city-urban-planning-future-us-citiesThe Saigon Timeshttps://thesaigontimes.vn/thanh-pho-15-phut/Web: www.moreno-web.net Twitter: @CarlosMorenoFrInstagram: @carlosmorenofr Publications:La revolución de la proximidad: De la «ciudad-mundo» a la «ciudad de los quince minutos»Publisher: Alianza Editorial; edición February 9, 2023. Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practiceby Zaheer Allam (Editor), Didier Chabaud (Editor), Catherine Gall (Editor), Florent Pratlong (Editor), Carlos Moreno (Editor).Publisher: Elsevier; 1st edition (December 23, 2022). World Cities Report 2022 of UN-HABITAT.https://www.moreno-web.net/world-cities-report-2022-of-un-habitat/ 도시에 살 권리 카를로스 모네로 지음 양영란 옮김│정예씨 Vie urbaine et proximité, de Carlos Moreno (Auteur)Publisher:  aux Editions de l’Observatoire Droit de cité, de la “ville-monde” à la “ville du quart d’heure”Publisher: aux Éditions de l’Observatoire. Audio visual:TED talkhttps://www.ted.com/talks/carlos_moreno_the_15_minute_city Key words:15-minute city, urban planning, UN-Habitat, United Nations Habitat, World Cities Report 2022, Poland, Katowice and UN-Habitat, Eleventh World Urban Forum, WUF11Episode production:Soundscapes by Mémo Dumay, sound artist, musician / Paris, France / January 2023   https://memodumay.tumblr.com/ Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.Art direction by estudiocinco.clEdition by sombraurbana.com Please subscribe on your favorite platformsCrossingCityLimits_LinkTreeMarch ‘23

A conversation with architecture professor René Peralta, About Tijuana / San Diego border presence, daily life, and design. Border astronaut, his latest work.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.11 René Peralta, The Border / TijuanaBiography:René Peralta studied architecture at the New School of Architecture in San Diego and the Architectural Association in London, England. He has been a professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, Professor of Urban Design at the University of Washington in St. Louis and, from 2012-2014, was Director of the Master of Science in Architecture with an emphasis in Landscape + Urbanism at Woodbury University in San Diego. Previously, he served as the inaugural Herb Greene Teaching Fellow at the University of Oklahoma (2019-2021). René’s work in recent years explores the contemporary and future forms of the urban border between the United States and Mexico, specifically between the cities of Tijuana and San Diego. René is a coauthor, with Fiamma Montezemolo and Heriberto Yépez, of the book Here is Tijuana, published in 2006 by Black Dog Publishing in London. In 2018, he co-edited, along with Tito Alegría and Roger Lewis, the commemorative edition of the book A Temporary Paradise: A look at the special landscape of the San Diego Region, originally prepared by Kevin Lynch and Donald Appleyard (COLEF 2018).His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Santa Monica Art Museum, Mexico House at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, DC, Shenzhen Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2007 and the Central Society of Architects in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2015, his research on the Experimental Housing Project (PREVI) in Lima, Peru, was part of the exhibition “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2017, he directed Hyperloop West, a group that went on to become a semi-finalist in the global challenge competition organized by Virgin Hyperloop One. In 2017, Rene curated the Tijuana-San Diego exhibit space at the 2017 Architecture and Urbanism Biennial in Seoul, Korea.René is a member of the board of directors of Fundación Esperanza de México (FEM), a non-profit organization with more than 25 years of experience building communities and improving the quality of life of low-income residents of Tijuana through assisted self-built housing.René is based in Tijuana and, in his spare time, is the conguero for the band “The Good Times” of Tijuana.Education:University of Oklahoma, USAArchitectural Association, London, EnglandNew School of Architecture and Design, San Diego, USAWorkplace: The University of Oklahoma, Division of Architecture. Current city: Norman, Oklahoma, USA / Tijuana, Baja California, MexicoWebsites of interest: www.generica.com.Mxhttps://architecture.ou.edu/directory/peralta/https://architecture.ou.edu/directory/peralta/https://www.generica.com.mx/ProfileBlog: Pensamientos Genericos http://generica.blog/Twitter: @Rene_PeraltaInstagram: @rperaltaPublications:Living Border: Replanteando la Geografía entre Tijuana y San Diego. Instituto Metropolitano de Planeación de Tijuana (IMPLAN) Tijuana, México. Forthcoming: 2022 Metropolis in Motion: Towards a Sustainable Mobility Plan Report of the mobility challenges in five cities in Latin America. Rene Peralta; Editor and Translator https://www.metropolis.org/sites/default/files/resources/Metropolis-in-Motion.pdf 2019  Temporary Paradise, A Commemorative Reprint. Rene Peralta, Tito Alegria, Roger Lewis, Co-Editors. COLEF, With selected essays by Bruce Appleyard, Michael Dear, Larry Herzog, Tito Alegria, Mike Stepner 2017. ISBN 978-607-479-274-4  Here is Tijuana An infographic walkthrough of the City of Tijuana, with an overview of cultural life, social issues, and the urban environment. Co-authored with Fiamma Montezemolo, Heriberto Yepez, Black Dog Publishing. London, England. 192 pp. ISBN: 1 904772 45 5. March 2006  Aqui es Tijuana (Spanish Edition) Black Dog Publishing, London England. 192pp. ISBN 1 904772 49 8, Spanish. May 2006Audio visual:Previ Lima Film, PREVI_ 45 Years after its conception, included in “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980” a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New Yorkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H9yQ5GdWvwhttps://www.generica.com.mx/PREVI-Peru-MOMA-NYTijuana Border, Mexico 🇲🇽 - by drone [4K]https://youtu.be/QMutN3mdS8kKey words:US Border, Mexico Border, Tijuana, San Diego, urban design, migration, daily life, trans frontier, border astronautEpisode production:Soundscapes by Rene Peralta / Tijuana, Mexico / August 2022sombraurbana.comDecember ‘22Book by Ernesto MirelesVistazos de la frontera (Spanish edition) Apr 28, 2023https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Ernesto-Mireles/dp/B0C3WTZ6HM/May 2023

A conversation with urban economist Jenny Schuetz PhD, about housing policy, housing affordability, and Fixer-Upper, How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, her latest book.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.10 Jenny Schuetz PhD, Housing policy / Washington DCBiography:Jenny Schuetz is a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. She is an expert in urban economics and housing policy, focusing particularly on housing affordability. Dr. Schuetz has written extensively on land use regulation, housing prices, urban amenities, and neighborhood change. She has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, Vox, and Slate.Before joining Brookings, Dr. Schuetz served as a principal economist in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Schuetz was also an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a post-doctoral fellow at New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Dr. Schuetz is a non-resident senior fellow at GWU’s Center for Washington Area Studies and teaches in Georgetown’s urban planning program.Dr. Schuetz earned a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Master’s in City Planning from M.I.T., and a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. Dr. Schuetz is the author of Fixer Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems.Education:PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.Master in City Planning from M.I.T.B.A. in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.Workplace: Brookings MetroCurrent city: Washington DC.Websites of interest:https://www.brookings.edu/program/brookings-metro/https://www.brookings.edu/experts/jenny-schuetz/Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BrookingsInstInstagram: http://www.Instagram.com/brookingsinstBook:Fixer-Upper. How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems210 PagesBrookings Institution Press, February 22, 2022Paperback ISBN: 9780815739289   Ebook ISBN: 9780815739296Buy Fixer-Upper book here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780815739289https://www.brookings.edu/book/fixer-upper/Publications:Topics of recent research include: how statewide zoning reform could improve housing affordability; local strategies to help renters during the COVID-19 crisis; rethinking homeownership incentives to narrow the racial wealth gap; and how housing costs exacerbate economic and racial segregation.source https://www.brookings.edu/https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/jenny-schuetzhttps://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/affordable-housing-doesnt-have-to-look-cheap-inside-or-outhttps://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/flexible-zoning-and-streamlined-procedures-can-make-housing-more-affordableTwitter: @jenny_schuetzAudio / Video:Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems Book Launch. 2022https://youtu.be/JNnwd1VEgJwKey words:Urban economics, Housing policy, Housing policies, equitable and healthy communities, Fixer-Upper. How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, Washington DC.Episode production:Soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero-G / Washington DC, Mall / December 2019sombraurbana.comLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsOctober ‘22

A conversation with urban designer Stefan Al PhD, about new sustainable materials in the public realm, operational energy and life cycle analysis, mass timber buildings and his book Supertall.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.09 Stefan Al PhD, Sustainable materials / New YorkBio: As a Dutch architect and urban designer based in New York, Stefan Al works on the design of mixed-use developments, master plans, and high-rise towers across the world. He has focused on pressing issues related to designing large-scale projects within the contemporary city, including high-density, sustainable mobility, and urban resilience. In this work, he is able to draw from his extensive research and eight books which have been widely acclaimed by the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Record, The Times and NPR. In addition to his work as a practicing architect, he served as a TED Resident, a professor at various institutions such as Virginia Tech and Columbia University, and as an advisor to various city governments, including Hong Kong. Source: stefanal.comEducation: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning.M.Arch. University College London, Architecture, Graduated with Merit.M.Sc. Delft University of Technology, Architecture, Graduated with Distinction.ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture, Architecture, Erasmus Program.Workplace: Virginia Tech.Current city: New York.Websites of interest:https://www.stefanal.com/Buy Supertall book here:https://www.amazon.com/Supertall-Worlds-Tallest-Buildings-Reshaping/dp/1324006412?&linkCode=sl1&tag=stefanal-20&linkId=a690d5567234c17132934554b18cad9e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tlhttps://www.stefanal.com/booksPublications:Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping our Cities and Our LivesBeyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and PlacesAdapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray StrategiesThe Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American DreamVillages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal SettlementsMall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of ConsumptionFactory Towns of South China: An Illustrated GuidebookMacau and the Casino ComplexInstagram: @stefanalLinktree: https://linktr.ee/stefanalTwitter: @alstefanAudio / Video:Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper?https://youtu.be/kF54-camgCgImproving Cities With Innovative Building Materials and Urban Designhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRmg4TnFTKEhttps://www.thinkwood.com/Key words:Sustainable materials, bio based materials, operational energy, life cycle analysis, embodied carbon, carbon friendly materials, energy waste, mass timber buildings, biophilia, super tall buildings, architecture, urban design, TED, Netherlands, New York.Episode production:sombraurbana.comLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsSeptember ‘22

A conversation with urban mobility researcher Meredith Glaser PhD, about urban mobility, policy transfer, and human-scaled accessibility.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.Episode production: Iván López / Santiago + Austin Roch / Portland + Ana Astiazaran / Amsterdam08 Meredith Glaser PhD, Urban mobility / AmsterdamBio: Meredith Glaser is an urban mobility researcher and lecturer, based in the Netherlands since 2010. Dr. Glaser’s work focuses on policy innovation, knowledge transfer, and capacity building for accelerated implementation of sustainable transport goals. She brings an interdisciplinary perspective to urban mobility, with her background in public health, urban planning, and environmental science. She has extensive experience acquiring, managing and executing research projects and currently manages the academic output, technical advisory input, and partner engagement for European projects (CYCLEWALK and HANDSHAKE). Her research has been published in international peer-review journals. She is also one of the world’s most experienced educators for professionals seeking to learn Dutch transport planning policies and practices. In addition to research, she has broad experience teaching all levels, from bachelors and masters to mid-career professionals. She is the academic director of the summer program Planning the Cycling City and co-developed the Coursera on-line course Unraveling the Cycling City. Meredith also regularly provides keynotes at international conferences that explore sustainable transport, innovation, urban design, and placemaking. She has been featured in a range of media outlets, including the The Guardian, Streetsblog, Apolitical, Outside Magazine, and National Public Radio (USA). She is originally from California and holds Masters degrees in urban planning and public health from UC Berkeley. She received her PhD in urban planning from the University of Amsterdam. Source: https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/Education: PhD in urban planning from the University of Amsterdam.Master in urban planning and public health from UC Berkeley.Workplace: Urban Cycling Institute, Director of Programs. University of Amsterdam, Postdoctoral Researcher & LecturerCurrent city: Amsterdam.Websites of interest:https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/  https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/https://www.coursera.org/learn/unraveling-the-cycling-cityhttps://www.youtube.com/c/UrbanCyclingInstitute/featuredhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/sep/22/what-happens-if-you-turn-off-the-traffic-lightsPublications:Recent work & open access articles.Glaser, M., et al. (in press) Learning through policy transfer? Reviewing a decade of scholarship for the field of transport. Transport Reviews.Glaser, M. (2021) From global ideas to local action: Building capacity to reshape urban transport policy [Doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam]. DARE Repository. Glaser, M. & Krizek, K. (2021) Can emergency response measures trigger a transition to new transport systems? Exploring the role of “street experiments” from 55 US cities. Transport Policy.Glaser, M. et al. (2020) Accelerating reform to govern streets in support of human-scaled accessibility. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Glaser, M. et al. (2020). Learning from abroad: An interdisciplinary exploration of knowledge transfer in the transport domain. Research in Transportation Business & Management.https://urbancyclinginstitute.com/meredith-glaser/Instagram: @amsterdamcyclechic  @unravelingthecyclingcityTwitter: @dutch_ishAudio / Video:https://youtu.be/64rUx9erI3U   Spokes! Ridecast with Meredith Glaser _Fantastic ridecast video!https://youtu.be/kPYgHWSXOXo Virtual Tour of Amsterdam's Cycling Infrastructure by Meredith GlaserKey words:Urban mobility, sustainable transport, policy transfer, policy innovation, knowledge transfer, inclusion, human-scaled accessibility, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, Bringing cycling knowledge from science to practice and back.Episode production:Soundscapes by Ana Astiazaran / Amsterdam / July 22Research by Iván López / Santiago Production support by Austin Roch / PortlandBike bell sample by Spokes! RidecastLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City Limits July ‘22

A conversation with architect David Basulto, reflecting about the future and history of ArchDaily, the role of the architect on digital platforms and communities, the concept of trans-architect, and about the experience of curating an exhibition for the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.07 David Basulto, ArchDaily / BerlinBio: David Basulto is a Chilean architect and co-founder, and Editor in Chief of ArchDaily and its network of sites in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. He has lectured in institutions around the world including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sao Paulo's Escola do Cidade, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Arizona in Tucson and has acted as curator and editor for a number of exhibitions and magazines, programmer and as a jury member for multiple competitions and awards.Education: Architect, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Workplace: archdaily.comCurrent city: Berlin.Websites of interest:https://www.archdaily.cn/cnhttps://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/clhttps://www.plataformaurbana.cl/Instagram: @ArchDaily  @dbasulto Twitter: @dbasultoAudio / Video:Nordic Countries Pavilion "In Therapy", Venice Biennale 2016 / Video by Jesús Granadahttps://youtu.be/hnIlUQGisDcNotes about Nordic Countries Pavilion "In Therapy" https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/15th-venice-architecture-biennale-nordic-countries-pavilion-finland-norway-sweden/ https://www.archdaily.com/778232/nordic-pavilion-selects-david-basulto-as-curator-at-venice-biennale-2016 Key words: archdaily.com, trans-architecture, digital platforms, In Therapy, 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Nordic countries pavilion, Sverre Fehn, 1959, Sweden, Norway, Finland. Learn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsMay ‘22

A conversation with assistant professor Ana Martínez, Ph.D, exploring dynamics of contested spaces, the power of collective memory in urban performance and the significance of the Zócalo, the central square in Mexico City. Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.06 Ana Martínez PhD, Urban performance / San MarcosBio: Ana Martínez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University. Her book Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (University of Michigan Press, 2020) was selected as one out of six finalists for the Theatre Library Association's 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Performance in the Zócalo addresses the ways in which Mexico City's central square, the Zócalo, manifests and contests its symbolic power through performance practices. Her chapter on the 2001 march by the Zapatistas to the Zócalo is included in Performance and the Global City. As a scholar, she integrates a knowledge of performance and spatial practices with socially grounded research. Her current research focuses on Latinx performance, migration, and environmentalism.Education: PhD in Theatre Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center; MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London; Architecture degree from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City.Workplace: Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, Texas State UniversityCurrent city: San Marcos, Texas (between Austin and San Antonio) U.S.A.Buy the book: Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in México's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020).Save 30% at press.umich.edu with promotion code UMZOCALOhttps://www.press.umich.edu/10160893/performance_in_the_zocaloWebsites of interest: https://faculty.txstate.edu/profile/2164184https://www.txstate.edu/research/resources/research-newsletter/newsletter-archives/research-newsletter-summer-2021/faculty-research-spotlight/faculty-research-spotlight-martinez.htmlhttp://www.tla-online.org/awards/bookawards/freedley-award-finalists/https://anamartinezscenography.carbonmade.com/Publications:Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in México's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020). https://www.press.umich.edu/10160893/performance_in_the_zocalo"Teatro Línea de Sombra durante la pandemia: Entrevista con Alicia Laguna y Jorge A. Vargas,"Latin American Theatre Review 55, no. 1 (2021): 169¬–178.https://doi.org/10.1353/ltr.2021.0022"Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'" in Hopkins, D.J. and Kim Solga, eds. Performance and the Global City (New York: Palgrave, 2013).https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367853_10"Scenographies behind the Scenes: Mapping, Classifying, and Interpreting John Rich's 1744 Inventory of Covent Garden," in Barlow, Jeremy and Berta Joncus, eds. The Stage's Glory: John Rich (1642–1761) (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011). "Urban Scenographies: The Revolt of the Mannequins Visits Berlin," Western European Stages 21, no.2 (2009): 5–8. "The 2007 Prague Quadrennial: 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture," Slavic and East European Performance 28, no.3 (2008): 61–72.  Johannes Dokchtor Faust by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre," Slavic and East European Performance 28, no.1 (2008): 87–93. "La Piel at Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico City," Theatre Journal 59, no.2 (2007): 302– 303.http://libproxy.txstate.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25070021"Interview: Entrevista con Agustín Meza," Latin American Theatre Review 40, no. 2 (2007): 135–139.Audio / Video:Special recognition to the video and songs authors and performers:“Canción sin miedo” resuena en el Zócalo. La Jornada, March  2020.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If84x4J41N8 Sights & Sounds of Mexico CitySonidos del Distrito by Nanda Fernandez, Random Acts 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK9NT8KYHVs Vivir Quintana - Canción sin miedo ft. El Palomarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLyzqkH6cs Key words:Urban performance, contested spaces, collective memory, Zócalo, Mexico City, performance in the Zócalo, history, race, identityLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsApril ‘22

Urban Soundscapes Exhibition in the Sundt Gallery, U Arizona, Featuring sounds from Tucson, Barcelona, and New York.Produced by the Urban Agency P3 Cluster:Alexandra Calvosa, Abigail Denninghoff, Gianna Ghilardi, Jesus Herrera, Ally Kwan, Monica  Laredo, Stacey Mathews, Kaya Orona, Sam Owen, Estefania Pesqueira, Yaqoub Hasan.Clare Robinson PhD, Beth Weinstein PhD, Elena Canovas, Eduardo Guerrero.Poster, Stacey Mathews.University of Arizona, School of Architecture, April 2022

A conversation with urban planner Alamira Reem Al Hashimi, Ph.D, who wrote the urban history of Abu Dhabi, UAE.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.05 Alamira Reem Al Hashimi, PhD, Planning Abu Dhabi / Abu DhabiBio:Alamira Reem Al Hashimi (BA Arch,; MPL; PhD) is an urbanist, architect and historian. She is the first Emirati woman to be awarded a PhD in urban planning (which she obtained from the University of California Berkeley) and is considered one of the leading researchers on the urban development of the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Alamira Reem is actively engaged in government initiatives related to strategy and master planning, documentation and preservation of the built environment, knowledge development and outreach, and has over 15 years of local and international experience in urban planning and design. With an extensive research background, she has authored several publications, including Planning Abu Dhabi: An Urban History, a book that explores and documents Abu Dhabi’s urban development. She regularly shares her expertise on UAE architecture and urbanism, place identity and branding, and urban theory and design at industry forums, conferences and universities around the world. Dr. Alamira Reem has dedicated herself to advancing architectural and planning knowledge of the UAE locally and globally, and has been featured as one of 150 Inspiring Emirati Women (Zahrat Al Khaleej), 17 Emirati Women you need to know about (Emirates Literature Foundation), and Five female Emirati writers shaping the country's literary scene (The National). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Emirates Planning Association and the Technical Committee for UAE Modern Heritage. Title, degree: PhD in City and Regional Planning, UC BerkeleyWorkplace: Abu Dhabi Executive Office Board of directors for the Emirates planning associationUAE modern heritage technical committeeCurrent city: I spend my time between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab EmiratesBuy the Book:Planning Abu Dhabi, An Urban History. 1st Editionhttps://www.routledge.com/Planning-Abu-Dhabi-An-Urban-History/Hashim/p/book/9780367664800Websites of interest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alamira.reem/Publications links, a selection of articles:Key words:Planning history, urban studies, UAE planning association, UAE modern heritage conservation, urban planning, urban design #guerrerostudioLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsApril ‘22

A conversation with architect Cruz Garcia from WAI Think Tank, exploring the Post-colonial method, the Loudreaders education series, the alternative art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the manual of anti-racist architecture education.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. 04 Cruz Garcia, Post-colonial urbanism / AmesBio:WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded in Brussels during the financial crisis of 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders.Recent projects include the shortlisted design of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow, the design of Osiri Innovation Learning Center, an invited competition for a museum in Suzhou, and the design of the Housetelier in Beijing, as well as the design of several educational, cultural and exhibition spaces, and the conception of architectural playgrounds.Garcia and Frankowski are Associate Professors at Iowa State University. Authors of Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, and the upcoming book From Black Square to Black Reason: A Post-Colonial Architecture Manifesto. Source: waithinktank.comEducation: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Master of Architecture, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design DEGI Research Grant, Alpha Rho Chi Medal, Henry Adams MedalWorkplace: Iowa State UniversityCurrent city: Ames, IowaWebsites of interest: WAI Think Tank https://www.waithinktank.com/Loudreaders https://loudreaders.com/Intelligentsia Gallery 智先画廊 http://intelligentsiagallery.com/Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education https://waithinktank.com/Anti-Racist-Education-ManualWASH-Magazine https://www.waithinktank.com/WASH-Magazine-Taliesin-2016-17GarciaFrankowski https://garciafrankowski.com/Videos:Los Anarcos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o-_FFfc6EBolero Tropical https://vimeo.com/265936820Worldmakers Unite! Sixth Action https://vimeo.com/580132494A Phantastic Odyssey (WAI X UN) https://vimeo.com/430614540Worldmakers Unite! Dramatis Personae https://vimeo.com/580128096Key words:post-colonial method, loudreaders, anti-profit art Intelligentsia Gallery 智先画廊, manual of Anti-Racist architecture education WAI Think Tank #guerrerostudioLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City LimitsMarch ‘22

A conversation with urban planner Shane Phillips who advocates for an affordable city with concepts like supply, stability and subsidy and reflects about affordability, renting and ownership. Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. 03 Shane Phillips, Affordable housing / Los AngelesBio:Shane Phillips, Master in Urban Planning, USC Price School.Shane Phillips is an urban planner and policy expert based in Los Angeles. He manages the UCLA Lewis Center Housing Initiative, wrote a book about housing policy titled The Affordable City, which argues for the co-prioritization of supply, stability, and subsidy in housing policy and offers over 50 strategies for improving housing affordability and access.Shane has taught public policy as an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California. Shane previously worked as the Director of Public Policy for Central City Association, a Downtown LA advocacy organization, as well as roles with the Los Angeles Streetcar project and in City Hall. He’s also author of the www.betterinstitutions.com blog for many years, and hosts and produces the Housing Voice Podcast for the UCLA Lewis Center.Shane has been commissioned to speak about housing affordability strategies and communications by a range of institutions, including state and local governments, professional trade organizations and community-based organizations, the Centers for Disease Control(!), and more.Originally from Seattle, Shane has an eclectic background including time as a supervisor at UPS and a cable technician at Comcast, and over three years as a tuberculosis research scientist at the University of Washington. He’s proud to have been the first person in his family to go to college, earning a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UW and later moving to LA to pursue a dual-degree Masters program in Urban Planning and Public Administration. Shane’s been car-free for over a decade and is a fan of sci-fi books and DIY home renovations. Workplace: UCLACurrent city: Los Angeles, CaliforniaPodcast: UCLA Housing Voicehttps://www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/housing/ucla-housing-voice-podcast/Websites of interest: http://www.betterinstitutions.com/https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/Twitter: @ShaneDPhillips Publications links:Buy the book “The Affordable City”, Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-cityA selection of articles:·        The Atlantic: Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse·        Smart Growth Network Webinar·        The Henry George Program: The Affordable City and Rethinking Homeownership·        UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies: Housing Demolition and Redevelopment in Los Angeles·        UCLA Lewis Center: Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents·        UCLA Lewis Center: A Call for Real Estate Transfer Tax Reform·        UCLA Lewis Center: Affordable Housing Primer·        UCLA Lewis Center: LA’s COVID-19 Response Should Prioritize Long-Term Rent-Stabilized Tenants for Housing Assistance·        UCLA Lewis Center: Does the Los Angeles region have too many vacant homes? ·        UCLA Lewis Center: Increasing the Duration of Affordability Requirements for New Affordable Housing·        UCLA Lewis Center: Revisiting LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance and “Allowable Rent Increases”·        Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Why is L.A. too pricey? Blame low vacancy rates, not luxury high-rises·        LA Times Op-Ed #2: Can pro-development and anti-demolition factions find common ground on affordable housing? Key words:Affordable housing, supply, stability, subsidy, housing affordability, renting, ownership, urban design #guerrerostudioLearn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City Limits February ‘22

A conversation with urban climatologist Ariane Middel, Ph.D, exploring thermal comfort, urban shade for pedestrians, and human-climate interactions in cities.Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. 02 Ariane Middel, Ph.D. Urban shade / PhoenixBio:Ariane Middel, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 2008.Ariane’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of urban climate with focus on climate-sensitive urban form, design, landscapes, and infrastructure in the face of extreme heat and climatic uncertainty.For the past eight years, Middel has advanced the field of urban climate science through applied and solutions-oriented research employing quantitative and qualitative field observations, local and microscale climate modeling, and geovisualization to investigate sustainability challenges related to heat, thermal comfort, Urban Heat Islands, water use, energy use, and human-climate interactions in cities.Her ongoing research is focused on developing better models and metrics to quantify urban heatscapes as they are experienced by pedestrians. She currently develops a thermal comfort model based on an innovative big data approach using Street View data, deep learning, and novel environmental sensing techniques such as the biometeorological MaRTy cart.Middel directs the SHaDE Lab at ASU and is an active member of the Urban Climate Research Center (UCRC) and the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program. She currently serves a 3-year term (2019-2022) on the Executive Board of the International Association of Urban Climate (IAUC), the premier international organization for researchers engaged in all aspects of urban climate scholarship. She is also a Board member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Built Environment (BUE), a member of the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Middel joined the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) as an assistant professor in 2018. She has a joint appointment with the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI). Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University and an assistant research professor with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU. She received her doctorate in computer science (visualization) from a German National Science Foundation-funded international graduate school at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from University of Bonn, Germany. Source: https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/profile/ariane-middel Workplace: Arizona State University Current city: Phoenix, Arizona Website: https://shadelab.asu.edu/ Twitter: @ArianeMiddel    Publications links: Ariane Middel, Saud AlKhaled, Florian Arwed Schneider, Björn Hagen, Paul Coseo. (2021). 50 Grades of Shade. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0193.1 Ariane Middel, V. Kelly Turner, Florian A. Schneider, Yujia Zhang, Matthew Stiller. (2020). Solar reflective pavement – A policy panacea to heat mitigation? Environmental Research Letters, 15:064016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab87d4 Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff. (2019). Micrometeorological determinants of pedestrian thermal exposure during record-breaking heat in Tempe, Arizona: Introducing the MaRTy observational platform, Science of the Total Environment, 687:137–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.085 Ariane Middel, Nancy Selover, Björn Hagen, Nalini Chhetri. (2016). Impact of Shade on Outdoor Thermal Comfort - A Seasonal Field Study in Tempe, Arizona, International Journal of Biometeorology, 60(12):1849–1861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-016-1172-5 More publications:Kaylee Colter, Ariane Middel, Chris A. Martin. (2019). Effects of natural and artificial shade on human thermal comfort in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 44:126429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126429 Mehdi Aminipouri, David Rayner, Fredrik Lindberg, Sofia Thorsson, Anders Jensen Knudby, Kirsten Zickfeld, Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff. (2019). Urban tree planting to maintain outdoor thermal comfort under climate change: The case of Vancouver's local climate zones. Building and Environment, 158, 226–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.05.022 David M. Hondula, Robert C. Balling Jr., Riley Andrade, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Ariane Middel, Aleš Urban, Matei Georgescu, David J. Sailor. (2017). Biometeorology in cities, International Journal of Biometeorology. 61(Supp 1):59–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-017-1412-3 Ariane Middel, Jonas Lukasczyk, Ross Maciejewski. (2017). Sky View Factors from Synthetic Fisheye Photos for Thermal Comfort Routing – A Case Study in Phoenix, Arizona, Urban Planning, 2(1):19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i1.855 Ariane Middel, Nalini Chhetri, Ray Quay. (2015). Urban Forestry and Cool Roofs: Assessment of Heat Mitigation Strategies in Phoenix Residential Neighborhoods, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 14(1):178–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2014.09.010 Remote sensing, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary, Urban shade Learn more at: CrossingCityLimits.comLink tree Crossing City Limits February ‘22

A conversation with urban designer Anna Robinson, exploring practices for Indigenous participation, inclusive design, and sustainable open space as critical elements of planning. Acknowledgement of CountryI’d like to begin today by acknowledging the Traditional owners of the land on which I am meeting with you, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and I pay my respects to their Elders, past present and emerging. Bio:I’d describe myself an urban designer, city shaper, strategic thinker and problem solver… I have a Bachelor of Design, a Master of Urban Design and an MBA and I’m Group Leader for Healthy Water & Civil Solutions at AECOM which comprises a team of 100 planners, designers and engineers – my role involves a lot of multidisciplinary collaboration and communication, so I’m constantly learning new things from a very broad range of technical disciplines and working out how to best fit all the pieces of the puzzle together.Workplace: AECOM, a global infrastructure consultancy, focused on delivering a better world through six core values (Safeguard, Innovate, Collaborate, Deliver, Sustain, Thrive).Current city: Sydney, Australia – I live in a neighbourhood called Naremburn, affectionately known as the golden triangle because it is wedged between three pieces of linear infrastructure) which is 6 kilometres (4 miles) north of Sydney CBD, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and it offers the ultimate walkable neighbourhood, it’s a 5 minute walk to the bus stop which is one stop (6 minutes) into the city; it’s a 5 minute walk to the local shops which includes a couple of cafes, a bakery, a pizzeria, a fish and chip shop, a Thai restaurant, an exquisite florist; it’s a 10 minute walk to the supermarket and a whole range of other shops; there are half a dozen fantastic parks and playgrounds all within a 10 minute walk.Guest’s reflections:I have a couple of reflections to share about trends emerging in the way we think about the future design, planning and engineering of our city here – in terms of the way clients are thinking, the way the industry is moving and the way urban designers approach their projects:Indigenous focus – greater respect for the 60,000-year history of our country including a the focus towards ‘Designing for Country’, partnering with Indigenous consultants and growing our Indigenous workforce.Inclusivity focus – consciously designing safer places (a city that’s safe for women is a city that’s safe for all) and more accessible spaces (such as playgrounds that are accessible for people of all ages and abilities).Sustainability focus – embedding sustainability not just in the projects being delivered but also in the way organizations operate more broadly with an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) lens. Links: AECOM:https://aecom.comCommittee for Sydney and NSW Government’s Public Space Ideas Competition: https://sydney.org.au/psic/homepage/NSW Government’s Everyone Can Play:https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Policy-and-Legislation/Open-space-and-parklands/Everyone-Can-Play-in-NSWGreater Sydney Commission’s Women’s Safety Charter:https://www.greater.sydney/thought-leadership/womens-safety-charterGlasgow COP26 Billboards: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/oct/15/satirical-ads-mocking-australias-climate-stance-take-over-times-squares-biggest-billboard-videoJoin Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture. Learn more at CrossingCityLimits.comJanuary ‘22.