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Sur-Urbano

by Latin American Cities Working Group

“Sur-urbano” is a podcast where we talk to leading scholars, planners and activists on Latin American cities about their work, the cities they love and how to make them better. Produced by the Latin American Cities Working Group, based at UC - Berkeley, and hosted by Isabel Peñaranda Currie. To find out more, or to cohost, reach us at @latam_cities. Made possible thanks to UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies and to the Center of Latin American Studies. Music: Jaime Alejandro Angarita Art: Rachel Meirs - https://www.instagram.com/rachel.meirs/ Production: Francesca Fenzi

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Transporte Popular con Andrea San Gil-León y Fernanda Rivera

Yo alcancé a andar por la Carrera séptima de Bogotá cuando elúnico modo de transporte para llegar al centro era en buses colectivos. Uno alazaba el brazo donde sea que es

Aug 20
59 min

Development and Stability: Colombia's Economic Technocracy (1948-1974) with Andrés Guiot-Isaac

In this episode, cohost Sergio Infante and I talk to AndrésM. Guiot-Isaac about his book in progress, titled Development with Stability. In it, Guiot Isaac takes the lens

Jul 30
1 h 04 min

Descolonización del patrimonio en Puerto Rico con Rafael Capó García y Javier Arbona-Homar

Puerto Rico: Un archipiélago que, cada año, recibe a millones de turistas. Muchos de estos visitantes llegan a un lugar que, por décadas, se ha posicionado en una ruta de

Jul 3
47 min

Poor People’s Movements and Climate Politics in São Paulo with Daniel Aldana Cohen

In the late 2000s, two movements emerged in Sao Paulo, each trying to make the city more humane and livable for its residents. On the one hand, green policy elites worked

Jun 11
53 min

El Cooperativismo en Uruguay con Lucía Anzalone

Entre 2024 y 2025, hice parte de un pequeño experimento habitacional y social llamado Tulpa, en el barrio Palermo en Bogotá. Ahí, tengo un apartamento con una terraza que

May 19
1 h 00 min

Milícia-created Enclaves and Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro with Priscila Coli Rocha

In today’s episode, we look at the the criminal actorsshaping urban enclaves in Rio. I wanted to provide a little backstory, because this actually connects to work and re

Apr 30
1 h 15 min

RERUN: Rent-Seeking Landscapes and Landscapes for Life with Raquel Rolnik

This week, we are digging one of our classic episodes from the archives - our conversation with the canonical critical and public urban scholar, Raquel Rolnik. Many of

Mar 20
38 min

La Vivienda, el Decrecimiento y el Derecho a la Ciudad en Barcelona con Claudia Delso Carreira y David Bravo

Si escuchas este episodio en Marzo del 2026, es muy possibleque en estos momentos, se esté terminando la construcción de un edificio en Barcelona muy diferente a los otro

Mar 6
1 h 08 min

La Ciudad que Cuida: Manzanas y el Sistema del Cuidado en Bogotá

En el sur de Bogotá, en la localidad de Ciudad Bolivar, hayun sitio mágico. Se llega por medio de un telesferico llamado TransmiCable, y se aloja en la base de una de sus

Feb 12
59 min

¿Qué está pasando en Venezuela? Un análisis desde la izqueirda Venezolana

El 3 de enero, el mundo presenció una invasión estadounidense a Venezuela y la captura y secuestro de su presidente, Nicolás Maduro. Yo estaba primero en Colombia, donde

Jan 30
1 h 18 min

Democracy on the Ground in Venezuela with Gabriel Hetland

Even within the already brutal record of the Trump administration, the escalating threats of military intervention and extrajudicial killings of civilians in Venezuela st

Dec 22 2025
1 h 06 min

Logistics and Racial Ecologies on the Magdalena River with Austin Zeiderman

The Magdalena River has been the central artery of Colombia's history: it was the path of colonization as well as of commercial circulation linking the coast to the inter

Dec 8 2025
1 h 09 min

Habitando Ciudad Verde: La vida en un Macroproyecto de Vivienda de Interés Social con Adriana Hurtado

En América Latina heredamos el impulso de hacer ciudades “desde cero”: desde la damera colonial a Brasilia, cada época y lugar, interpreta este impulso de borrón y cuenta

Nov 25 2025
1 h 03 min

What Zohran can learn from Latin America's Pink Tide

I recorded the intro to this episode on the first morning after we learned that, with about 50% of the vote and the highest turnout in recent history, Zohran Mamdani – a

Nov 10 2025
1 h 09 min

Tránsitos Turbulentos en el Canal de Panamá con Camilo López y Danilo Rivera

En su discurso de investidura, el presidente de los Estados Unidos Donald Trump declaró: “China está operando el Canal de Panamá. No se lo dimos a China, se lo dimos a Pa

Apr 21 2025
54 min

Pollution, Slow Harms and Citizen Action with Veronica Herrera

Toxic pollution kills 12.6 million people every year—nearlyone-quarter of all global deaths – and 92% of these deaths occur in middle or low-income countries. Yet despite

Apr 3 2025
47 min

Vivas nos Queremos: La Lucha por la Ciudad Feminista en Ecuador con Liz Zhingri

Un día de Septiembre del 2020, en uno de los puentes del centro histórico colonial de Cuenca, en Ecuador, apareció un graffiti escrito. Leía: Nosotras parimos, nosotras d

Mar 20 2025
44 min

RERUN: What makes cities more or less unequal? With Ben Bradlow

The question of inequality haunts the global north and south as economic, racial and other forms of inequality appear to grow deeper and to more devastating effects. But

Mar 6 2025
49 min

Sur-Urbano on DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS de Bad Bunny

Este es un episodio atípico, y un poquito improvisado. Enél, entrevisto a tres puertoriqueños – Juan Arroyo, Coral Murphy y Ashely Ortiz, quienes son periodistas de músic

Feb 19 2025
1 h 07 min

Latinos for Trump and the Multi-Racial Right with Daniel Martinez HoSang

Since his inauguration just over a week ago, President Donald Trump has signed 8 executive orders and taken over 21 actions linked to immigration, evoking the notion of a

Jan 29 2025
1 h 02 min

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