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Sergio Montero
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Solutions, mobility and getting on the road
Caitlin and Michele walk the city with Sergio Montero, wandering from regional Spain, to Bogota, to the great hall of the World Bank in Washington DC via Canada, to unpack the persuasions of ‘urban solutionism’ and the role of philanthropy in the circulation of urban models. Sergio walks us through some presumed successes in urban planning and transportation models, and we follow the money, or at least the philanthropists, to witness urban theory ‘there and then’. We worry about structural inequalities, and changes in global urban discourses, but also muse on the place of the case study in urban research. We hear an indulgent but altruist cosmopolitan take on why we research, and appreciate vibrancy and wonder amidst deep urban problems.
Sergio Montero is Associate Professor of Geography & Planning and Inaugural Director of the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods (IIESL) at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His work investigates place-based and inclusive approaches to reimagine local economic development and urban & regional planning.
If you liked our walk, you might want to follow up on Sergio’s work in Urban Studies in the Related Articles section below.
And if you want more, we very much recommend Sergio’s recent book:
Montero S and Chapple K (2018) Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development. Abingdon: Routledge.
Credits
Every Beginning Is Hard 1v46 by Setuniman
nothing more 1T37 by Setuniman
05969 common bicycle bell by Robinhood76
STE-160 by sergiogranadamoreno
Bogota Demonstration by TheTunk
Casuarinas by Dan Barracuda
