Social Urbanism in Latin America

Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Part 1: Concepts and Context.- Chapter 1. Social Urbanism in Latin America (Carlos Leite).- Part II: Cases.- Chapter 2. Medellin (Mariana Wilderom).- Chapter 3. Bogota (Fernanda Militelli).- Chapter 4. Sao Paulo (Carlos Leite, Tereza Herling and Nadia Somekh).- Part III: Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing.- Chapter 5. Land Policy and Instruments of Financing (Claudia Acosta).- Chapter 6. Lessons and Challenges (Carlos Leite and Nabil Bonduki).

Carlos Leite, Urbanist, PhD (University of Sao Paulo) is Full Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Mackenzie Presbyterian University; Visiting Researcher at the Global Cities Program and Member of the Research Group on Urban Space and Health, both at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paulo; Assistant Professor at PPG-CIS Uninove and Director of Stuchi & Leite Projetos e Consultoria em Desenvolvimento Urbano. He was visiting scholar at Polytechnic University of California (CalPoly) and College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley. He was Director of Sao Paulo Urbanism public company, Sao Paulo City Hall. He is a consultant at international multilateral institutions and coordinates the research group on Innovative Urban Instruments, Land Policy and Social Urbanism.



Claudia Acosta is an Urban Law and land policy specialist. She has a Masters degree in Urban Studies (El Colegio de México) and in Law and Development (Fundacao Getulio Vargas); is specialist on Land Policy for Latin America (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) and finishes her PhD studies on public management and government at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo. She is consultant at UN-Habitat Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank, and at different Latin American countries on land value capture tools and land use and social housing regulations. She is Professor at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Latin American program). She works in Sao Paulo and Colombia.

Fernanda Miltelli is graduate, has Masters degree and currently develops her PhD studies at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has postgraduate studies on Environmental Development, Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, 2011; Urban Law, PUC Minas Gerais, 2012; Fundamental Themes of Land Regularization, Paulista School of Magistracy, 2011. She has ten years of