Latin America Program Doctoral and Graduate Student Fellows, 2014-2015

The Lincoln Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean supports doctoral and masters candidates who are preparing their theses on topics related to urban land policy. The students listed below received thesis support for the 2014-2015 academic year. Applications for thesis support for 2015-2016 will be announced in Spring 2015.

Nathyeli Yethzi Acuña Castillo
Masters candidate in Urban Economy, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social and economic factors that influence the location of companies in the metropolitan area of Costa Rica (2008-2010)

Paulina del Pilar Aguirre Bustamante
Masters candidate in Urban Economy, University Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Land prices and land policies in the city of Medellín

Wagner Vinicius Amorim
Doctoral candidate in Geography, School of Science and Technology, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Real estate production and restructuring of mid-sized cities: The examples of Londrina and Maringá, Paraná state, Brazil

Eliana Rosa de Queiroz Barbosa
Doctoral candidate, School of Economic Sciences, National University of Colombia
Urban projects: Latin translations

Laura Natalia Brener Maceiras
Masters candidate in Zoning and Urban Development, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
Lessons learned about value capture in Uruguay in the light of the new Zoning and Sustainable Development Law (No 18308)

Juan Carlos Castellanos Puentes
Masters candidate in Urbanism, National University of Colombia
Social habitat production through grassroots housing organizations as a laboratory on building sustainable cities. Case study: Association for Integral Housing (ASOVIVIR), Bosa, Bogotá, Colombia

Patricia Cezario Silva
Doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Barriers to access to land as an impediment to social interest housing production

Jonathan Edgardo Cohen
Masters candidate in Urban Economics, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Modeling the growth of informal settlements in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region

Nayana Corrêa Bonamichi
Masters candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, Institute for Research and Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR), State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cantagalo project: The never-ending return of Hernando de Soto to land regularization policies

Maria Vitória Costaldello Ferreira de Almeida
Masters candidate in Human Rights and Democracy, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
The justice system, collective urban land conflicts and housing rights

Juan Carlos Figueroa Godoy
Masters candidate in Government and Public Policy, Externado University, Colombia
New forms of land use and alternatives for value capture in urban regeneration projects: Three case studies in Bogotá

Beatriz Fleury e Silva
Doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil
New socio-spatial patterns in the northeast of Paraná state, Brazil: Impacts of the recent real estate production in metropolitan territory

Sarah Lúcia Alves França
Doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urbanism, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Capitalist production of urban space and new real estate valuation vectors in Aracaju, Brazil

Mariana Sofía Gallo
Masters candidate in Social Sciences and Humanities, Quilmes National University, Argentina
Determinants that explain the difficulty of access to urban land by low-and medium-income sectors: Case study of the city of Neuquén, Argentina

Ruth Concepción García Fernández
Doctoral candidate in Design, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Azcopotzalco campus, Mexico
Spatial and social effects of the policy of redensification of the Bando Dos growth restriction instrument in the Escandón neighborhood

Simone Ferreira Gatti
Doctoral candidate in Urban Planning and the History of Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Between permanence and displacement: ZEIS 3 as an instrument for confining the low-income population to central areas

Loraine Mayrim Giraud Herrera
Doctoral candidate in Sustainable Development, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela
Design of an integrated system of environmental sustainability indicators at the municipal level. Case study from the Municipality of Chacao, state of Miranda, Venezuela

Carla Marcela Hermida Palacios
Doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urban Studies, Catholic University of Chile
Mobility and urban planning: dialogues and monologues. The case of Cuenca, Ecuador

Nicolás Alberto Hinostroza León
Masters candidate in Sciences, National University of Engineering, Peru
Effects of rural migration in the urban land market on the southern fringe of the city of Huancayo-Junín, Peru

Sergio Andrés Kaminker
Doctoral candidate in Sociology, National University of San Martín, Argentina
Migration, urbanization and residential segregation in Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina (1991-2010)

Leticia Lindenburg Lemos
Masters candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Non-motorized mobility: A study of the relationship with urban regulations and public policies for land use and management in São Paulo

Mercedes Najman
Masters candidate in Design and Management of Social Programs, Argentina
Analysis of residential and socio-occupational trajectories of Argentina’s Federal Emergency Housing Program beneficiaries

Zulia Yanzadig Orozco Reynoso
Doctoral candidate in Urbanism, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Methodology for analysis of the impact of money laundering on the urban landscape of Cancun and Miami (2010-2015)

María Soledad Oviedo Costales
Masters candidate in Human Settlements and the Environment, Catholic University of Chile
The historic center of Quito, Ecuador: Changes in residential configuration and land use associated with tourism

Alejandra Catalina Palacio
Masters candidate in Urban Economy, Torcuato di Tella University
Incidence of proprietary declarations on land values in buildings in the city of Bogotá: Identification of land policy impacts and their link to the tax system

Christian María Quintana Hernández
Masters candidate in Valuation Sciences, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico
Relationship between the cadastral and commercial values of urban built lots in the municipality of Querétaro

Viviana Andrea Rangel Salamanca
Masters candidate in Government and Public Policy, Externado University, Colombia
New forms of land use and alternatives for value capture in urban regeneration projects: Three case studies in Bogotá

Gabriela Sofía Roca
Doctoral candidate in Architecture and Urbanism, National University of San Juan, Argentina
Spatial distribution of population and urban comfort in the Metropolitan Area of San Juan, Argentina: Contribution to the habitat of arid ecosystems

Edna Margarita Rodríguez Gaviria
Doctoral candidate in School of Mining, National University of Colombia
Methodological design for the analysis of risks due to flooding at the local level with limited information

María Angélica Rodríguez Herrera
Masters candidate in Urban Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
Impacts of urban violence on the real estate market: Devaluation of housing in Ciudad Juárez, 2006-2012

Ricardo Ramses Sánchez Rey
Masters candidate in Urbanism, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Evaluation of public policy in the government of Mexico, D.F.: The system of transfer of urban development potential

Daniel Santos Alves Da Silva
Doctoral candidate in Human Geography, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The scarcity of metropolitan space and the challenge of social interest housing in the central area of Rio de Janeiro

Wilson Levy Braga da Silva Neto
Doctoral candidate in Urban Law, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Interdisciplinary readings on the concept of the right to the city

Myriam Suavita Bejarano
Doctoral candidate in Geography, School of Philosophy and Letters, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Social production of space in land invasions: Case study from Cali, Cauca Valley, Colombia

Miguel Ángel Vargas Gallego
Masters candidate in Urban Management, Pilot University, Colombia
Tensions and misunderstandings between the informal land market and the production of urban structure in Santiago de Cali, Colombia: Case study of Comuna 13 in the Aguablanca district

Andrea Vizzotto
Doctoral candidate in Regional and Urban Planning, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Social management of land valuation through urban value capture. Evolution of the topic in Brazilian legal order through analysis of the Municipality of Porto Alegre’s approval and licensing of the Iguatemí shopping center (1983 – 2014)

Natan Waintrub Santibáñez
Masters candidate in Engineering Sciences in Transportation and Logistics, Catholic University of Chile
Willingness to receive incentives for real estate development near subway stations