Professor of Urban Planning, UNAM and the State University of Morelos, with degrees in Urban Planning from the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and a Ph.D. in Urbanism from UNAM, Mexico. Former postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism in Paris and a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, Oxford Brookes University and a Fulbright scholar at MIT. He was appointed the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America (IHEAL) at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and has served as a consultant on urban revitalization strategies to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America. Research focuses on public space and social control of space.

Faculty host: Professor Ananya Roy.