Transportation for whom?
It’s dark when Carmen wakes to the sound of her alarm clock. Preparing for the day, she packs her bag for work, makes breakfast for her children and fills their backpacks. After helping them…
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Theme: Urban Design and Planning
The Collapsing of Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro
English + Español
I was born and raised in Mexico City (formerly known as the Distrito Federal, until someone had the really good idea of calling it by its most commonly used name) and as a Mexico City native, or chilango, I have always been fascinated by the metro.
Walking the City: A Bad Knee and Making a Walkability Index
English + Español
I’m a few months away from my sixtieth birthday. It’s not long before I become a member of that group we catalogue in Venezuela as “seniors,” literally, “the third age.” In my city…
A Beacon of Hope for Brazil in a Pandemic Year
Such was the exchange I had with my Ph.D. advisor, Paul Sternberg, on that fateful week in March 2020, when it felt like the entire world was going to collapse. On Tuesday the 10th…
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Getting from Here to There
English + Español
Passengers scramble for buses in Bogotá and climb aboard the speedy but crowded public transport system that traverses this sprawling city of seven million people, the capital of Colombia. Cyclists whiz by in designated lanes and taxis move from here to there in what seem…