Sur-Urbano
Episodes
RERUN: Rent-Seeking Landscapes and Landscapes for Life with Raquel Rolnik
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we are digging one of our classic episodes from the archives - our conversation with the canonical critical and public urban scholar, Raque...
La Vivienda, el Decrecimiento y el Derecho a la Ciudad en Barcelona con Claudia Delso Carreira y David Bravo
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Si escuchas este episodio en Marzo del 2026, es muy possibleque en estos momentos, se esté terminando la construcción de un edificio en Barcelona mu...
La Ciudad que Cuida: Manzanas y el Sistema del Cuidado en Bogotá
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
En el sur de Bogotá, en la localidad de Ciudad Bolivar, hayun sitio mágico. Se llega por medio de un telesferico llamado TransmiCable, y se aloja en...
¿Qué está pasando en Venezuela? Un análisis desde la izqueirda Venezolana
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
El 3 de enero, el mundo presenció una invasión estadounidense a Venezuela y la captura y secuestro de su presidente, Nicolás Maduro. Yo estaba prim...
Democracy on the Ground in Venezuela with Gabriel Hetland
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even within the already brutal record of the Trump administration, the escalating threats of military intervention and extrajudicial killings of civil...
Logistics and Racial Ecologies on the Magdalena River with Austin Zeiderman
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Magdalena River has been the central artery of Colombia's history: it was the path of colonization as well as of commercial circulation linkin...
Habitando Ciudad Verde: La vida en un Macroproyecto de Vivienda de Interés Social con Adriana Hurtado
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
En América Latina heredamos el impulso de hacer ciudades “desde cero”: desde la damera colonial a Brasilia, cada época y lugar, interpreta este ...
What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded the intro to this episode on the first morning after we learned that, with about 50% of the vote and the highest turnout in recent history,...
Tránsitos Turbulentos en el Canal de Panamá con Camilo López y Danilo Rivera
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
En su discurso de investidura, el presidente de los Estados Unidos Donald Trump declaró: “China está operando el Canal de Panamá. No se lo dimos ...
Pollution, Slow Harms and Citizen Action with Veronica Herrera
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toxic pollution kills 12.6 million people every year—nearlyone-quarter of all global deaths – and 92% of these deaths occur in middle or low-incom...
Vivas nos Queremos: La Lucha por la Ciudad Feminista en Ecuador con Liz Zhingri
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Un día de Septiembre del 2020, en uno de los puentes del centro histórico colonial de Cuenca, en Ecuador, apareció un graffiti escrito. Leía: Noso...
RERUN: What makes cities more or less unequal? With Ben Bradlow
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The question of inequality haunts the global north and south as economic, racial and other forms of inequality appear to grow deeper and to more devas...
Sur-Urbano on DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS de Bad Bunny
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Este es un episodio atípico, y un poquito improvisado. Enél, entrevisto a tres puertoriqueños – Juan Arroyo, Coral Murphy y Ashely Ortiz, quienes...
Latinos for Trump and the Multi-Racial Right with Daniel Martinez HoSang
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since his inauguration just over a week ago, President Donald Trump has signed 8 executive orders and taken over 21 actions linked to immigration, evo...
Ciclovía y el Derecho a la Ciudad Móvil con Paola Castañeda
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todos los domingos en Bogotá, algo medio mágico pasa. Las calles que durante la semana se la pasan atestadas de carros – esas que uno como peatón...
Social Housing in Brazil: State and Developers at Work
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 2000s, a new market emerged in Brazil: the market for large-scale social housing. Through the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program, the B...
Ciudad de México: ¿Para la gente, o para el mercado? con Prof. Victor Delgadillo
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
¡Feliz diciembre! En el último año, nos escucharon casi 9,000 veces, y se sumaron casi 700 seguidores más en Spotify. Por eso, quería compartirle...
What Do We Owe Each Other? Operationalizing Social Protections with Gautam Bhan
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"A global pandemic has brought renewed attention to an old question: what do we owe each other? " The crisis of the COVID-19 brought this question to ...
Operações Urbanas: Teoria e Prática com Camila Maleronka
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neste episódio discutimos com a urbanista Camila Maleronka as Operações Urbanas Consorciadas, instrumentos responsáveis por grandes transformaçõ...
Surviving a lo Bori con Rafael Pabón Ortega
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Esto es un desafío al orden establecido, una invitación a transgredir, a romper el cerco. Son historias ordinarias y cotidianas, de amores y desamor...
Justice and equity in transportation systems with Rafael Pereira
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is a fair transportation system? What does it mean to say that a particular place is a transportation desert? Are measure of transportation pover...
Cuando la Planeación se Reduce a Contratos con Samuel Nossa Agüero
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En el episodio de hoy, hablamos de lo que pasa cuando la planeación se reduce a contratos, el título de un artículo escrito por mi buen amigo, Samu...
Soldados da Borracha e a Amazônia Brasileira com Wolney Oliveira e Marcos Vinicius Neves
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No último episódio desta temporada mergulhamos numa história pouco conhecida pela maioria: a da trajetória dos Soldados da Borracha na Amazônia B...
Outlaw Capital and Contraband Urbanism with Jennifer Tucker
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the central nodes of capitalist circulation in Latin America is a city you may have never heard of. It is also, by some accounts, the largest i...
Habitação Social no Brasil: da Lei do Inquilinato ao Minha Casa Minha Vida com Nabil Bonduki
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neste primeiro episódio do Sur_Urbano em português falamos com o professor Nabil Bonduki! Discutimos diversas fases da sua produção acadêmica. Co...
Rent-Seeking Landscapes and Landscapes for Life with Raquel Rolnik
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Sur-Urbano! Our guest today, Raquel Rolnik, may be known to many of you for her critical scholarship and prominent defense of the right to ...
La Nueva Informalidad en Chile: Campamentos, Migrantes y la Lucha por la Vivienda con Miguel Pérez
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En 2022 la convención constituyente de Chile presentó la propuesta para una nueva constitución que declaraba, entre otras cosas, el derecho a la vi...
The Amazon's Forgotten Cities with Adrián Lerner Patrón
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of the Amazon region, I think its fair to say that most of us think of the vast expanses of virgin rainforests, crossed by the largest r...
Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict with Gabriel Feltran
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about stolen cars, the relationships between illegal and legal markets, and public security in Brazil. We talk to Prof. Gabriel Feltra...
El Paro como Teoría con Alejandra Azuero-Quijano
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
¡Bienvenides a nuestra cuarta temporada de Sur-Urbano! Arrancamos con un estallido. El 28 de Abril de 2021, se declaró un paro nacional en Colombia...
The Planning of Palestine: Urban Planning under and as Occupation with Dana Erekat and Eyal Weizman
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about planning in Palestine, and especially Gaza. As you all know, this is a podcast about Latin American Cities. However, right now i...
Visiones sobre el problema de la barriada en Peru con Julio Calderón Cockburn
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sabían que del suelo nuevo generado durante en los últimos 20 años en las principales ciudades de Perú, el 92% ha sido informal? En este episodi...
Palestina y América Latina con Pablo Abufom
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Este episodio nace de la profunda tristeza ante la tragedia humana en Palestina e Israel – sí, una tragedia que contempla a los civiles de ambos pa...
The History of Low-cost Housing and Informality in Peru with Helen Gyger - Part I of 2
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The significance of Peruvian history on the topic of informality, however, is not restricted to this nation. Some of the most emblematic experts on in...
Agua y Crisis Climática en Ciudad de México con Claudia Campero y Jimena Silva
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
¿Cómo se ve la justicia climática desde lo urbano? En el marco del cambio climático, el acceso al agua es un tema cada vez más apremiante - y la ...
Socialist urban utopias in Mexico with Alfonso Fierro
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back everyone to our first episode in English of Sur-Urbano’s season 3. Today we ask, what is the role of architecture and planning in creat...
Reggaetón y la Ciudad con Hasta 'Bajo Project
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bienvenides a una nueva temporada de Sur-Urbano! Para hablar de este importante tema quisimos invitar a Hasta ‘Bajo Project, el primer archivo hist...
What makes cities more or less unequal? with Ben Bradlow
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The question of inequality haunts the global north and south as economic, racial and other forms of inequality appear to grow deeper and to more devas...
Ciudad de México ¿Para la gente, o para el mercado? con Prof. Victor Delgadillo
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio, hablamos sobre la planificación en Ciudad de México, y a quien beneficia. Junto con el cohost Santiago Echarri (@EcharriCotler) en...
Towards Abolition: The Fight against Racial Banishment and Policing in LA with Ananya Roy and Hamid Khan - Traffic in the Americas Special
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to read LA in the frame of the “Americas”, and to understand its police violence in the context of a hemispheric imperialist pro...
Abolicionismo, Activismo Trans y Toloposungo con Daniela Maldonado, Amy Ritterrbusch y Álvaro Escobar - Especial de Traffic in the Americas
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episodio especial de Traffic in the Americas sobre abolicionismo y activismo trans entre Bogotá y Los Ángeles con Daniela Maldonado de Toloposungo y...
Afro-Feminismos en Colombia: políticas anti-racistas, producción de conocimiento y artivismo con Glenda Palacios y Yanith Cristancho Segura
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
El evento fue organizado por The Center for Latin American Studies-CLAS, University of California, Berkeley, Co-Laboratorio Feminista de Investigació...
Transversality, Transitoriness and New Logics of Peripheral Urbanization with Teresa Caldeira
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of 2023! In this episode, Giselle Mendonça Abreu and I have the privilege of talking to a scholar well known among those...
Capitalismo, la Crisis Climática y la Planificación en Puerto Rico - Mesa Redonda
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bienvenides a un episodio muy especial de Sur-Urbano sobre Puerto Rico. En vez del formato de entrevista que normalmente hacemos, hicimos una mesa red...
Gated Communities and Peripheral Growth in Latin American Cities with Nora Libertun de Duren
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, returning cohost Aurora Echeverría and I talk to Nora Libertun on her article, “Peripheral Growth in Latin American and Caribbean ...
La lucha por la vivienda de inmigrantes latines en Madrid. Con Sophie Gonick.
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cómo se vuelve la propiedad de la vivienda una forma de despojo, y cómo los migrantes latines en España lucharon contra el desahucio? Hablamos con ...
Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies? With Prof. Eduardo Marques
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Second, we are starting Season II with an interview with the University of Sao Paulo's Eduardo Marques and cohosted by Marcela Alonso Ferreira. This w...
¿Cómo se construye una ciudad progresista? con Maria Mercedes Maldonado
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
¿Qué define un modelo de ciudad progresista? O más bien, ¿qué alternativas tienen los sectores progresistas y de izquierda - ampliamente entendid...
Land Policy in Latin America with Martim Smolka
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking to Martim Smolka, the man who has been the director of the Latin American and Caribbean program at the Lincoln Institute of L...
¿Qué realmente es el Derecho a la Vivienda? con Carla Escoffié
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
¡Bienvenides a nuestro primer episodio en español! De ahora en adelante alternaremos episodios en español con los de inglés. Empezamos esta ...
The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas with Prof. Amy Offner
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, cohost Julian Gomez and I talk to Professor Amy Offner about her book, Sorting the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and De...
Are compact cities always more productive? The case of Mexico, with Paavo Monkkonen
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It has become common sense to assert that compact cities are better, among other things because agglomeration economies make them more productive. How...
Does private property undermine development? With Prof. Alisha Holland
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does property undermine development, and specifically, the construction of infrastructure? Along with co-host Aurora Echaverria, we discuss Prof...
Land Use Regulation and Informal Settlements with Prof. Cynthia Goytia
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can land use regulations end up incentivizing informal settlements, or mitigate? In this episode, cohosted by Flavia Leite of UC Berkeley, we intervie...
Why Informal Workers Organize with Prof. Calla Hummel
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our cohost today is Irene Farah and our second guest of the season is Prof. Calla Hummel. We are discussing Prof. Hummel’s recent published book, Wh...
The judicialization of planning in Bogotá with Sergio Montero
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are judges the new planners? In our first episode of "Sur-Urbano", we discuss Sergio Montero, Luisa Sotomayor and Natalia Ángel Cabo's recent article...