Photo by Roberto Rocco, TU Delft
RESEARCH
Current Work
Prédio invadido no centro de São Paulo, April 27, 2019 (source: Exarte)
Precarious housing
This project explores the idea of precarious housing, referring to larger structures and inequalities shaping the lived experiences related to precariousness, such as different housing and labour conditions, identity and citizenship statuses. In this context, precarity results from how societies are structured, which ultimately exposes some to fragility, and a consequence, results in a situation without predictability, security, or material and social welfare.
I am currently co-editing The Handbook of Precarious Housing together with Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, forthcoming with Routledge.
This project explores the idea of precarious housing, referring to larger structures and inequalities shaping the lived experiences related to precariousness, such as different housing and labour conditions, identity and citizenship statuses. In this context, precarity results from how societies are structured, which ultimately exposes some to fragility, and a consequence, results in a situation without predictability, security, or material and social welfare.
I am currently co-editing The Handbook of Precarious Housing together with Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, forthcoming with Routledge.
Planning and the right to the city in Brazil
I have been broadly interested in Brazilian urban policy and the right to the city. This has included focusing on the role of civil society in the planning of cities, the implementation of 'progressive' urban policies, and the future of Brazil's cities given the politico-economic crisis.
This is an ongoing project involving my recent book on Claiming the right to the city: Rethinking urban transformations in Brazil, in addition to my dissertation research on the Statute of the City and many other publications For a list of this work, please see my list of publications for examples of this work.
I have been broadly interested in Brazilian urban policy and the right to the city. This has included focusing on the role of civil society in the planning of cities, the implementation of 'progressive' urban policies, and the future of Brazil's cities given the politico-economic crisis.
This is an ongoing project involving my recent book on Claiming the right to the city: Rethinking urban transformations in Brazil, in addition to my dissertation research on the Statute of the City and many other publications For a list of this work, please see my list of publications for examples of this work.