“Cities Facing the New Right-Wing Governments” International Colloquium

The Observatory on Latin America OLA is pleased to invite you to URBS.TIC Interuniversity Alliance’s First International Colloquium “Las ciudades frente a los nuevos gobiernos de derecha” (Cities Facing the New Right-Wing Governments) which will take place from March 17 to 19, 2025, in Mexico City.

This event will bring together researchers from Latin America, North America, and Europe to discuss the main contemporary urban challenges. Over two days of conferences and thematic panels, topics such as urban development, planning, inequalities, low-income housing, urban violence, and urban neoliberalism will be addressed. Michael Cohen, director of the OLA, will moderate session 3, “Urban Economy“, and present the paper: Latin American Cities: Macroeconomic Pressures and Local Realities.

In-person event: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Auditorium, General Rector’s Office, UAM, Mexico City
Virtual event: https://puem.xoc.uam.mx/coloquio/

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