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Catalina Ortiz
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Latin American cities, storytelling and serendipity.
Caitlin joins Catalina Ortiz, discussing mundane observations and innovating how we tell the story of urban studies. Catalina takes the helm as an expert urban walker to guide us in the in-between of critical urbanism, architecture and spatial imagination. We go from Colombia to a global view, via London, seeking to displace the Anglo-Saxon tradition in favour of opening more inclusive spaces for a wider cast of urbanists. We chat about the opportunity and limitations of writing the Latin American city, and dance between big infrastructural challenges to academia and deeply personal reflections. We literally get lost with her on a staircase, captured by a contemplation on how we innovate storytelling for urban studies.
Catalina Ortiz is Professor of Critical Urban Pedagogy at University College London, where she is also Director of the UCL Urban Lab. Her professional experience spans over two decades focusing on teaching, research and consultancy linked to international organisations, national and local governments around urban projects, and spatial planning issues mostly in Latin America. She is one of the Editors of Urban Studies Journal and corresponding editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
If you liked our walk, you might want to follow up on Catalina’s work in Urban Studies through her edited virtual special issue and call for thinking through methods in the Related Articles section below.
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