From the City as a Project to the City Project

Fernando Carrión Mena is a Research Professor at the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. His focus of study are the topics of: housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1000 journalistic articles and 306 academic articles, published 74 books (editor of 52 and author of 22) and edited 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He has worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career he received 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinctions of honored citizen.

Sebastián Rodríguez Alvarez is a Researcher at the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. Master in Urban Studies with specialization in Geography and Territorial Processes from FLACSO Ecuador and Geographer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Consultant in diverse projects of land use planning, environmental management and urban mobility at local and national levels. His academic experience is related to the development of research projects on urban ecology and modeling of territorial processes. His research interests include geographic information science, data science, quality of urban life, socio-spatial segregation and urban violence.