PhD Student, (he/him)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Policy & Planning
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Active transportation planning in Latin America, pedestrian and vélo-mobilities, urban cycling policies, street design, gentrification studies, urban pedagogy, history and planning of Mexican cities
Working Dissertation
Title
Peddlers or pedalers? Street redesign policies and the itinerant bicycle trades of Mexico City
Supervisors
Paul Hess
Ron Buliung
Rajyashree Narayanareddy
Biography
Claudio Sarmiento-Casas is an architect and a doctoral student at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His main research on bicycle trades and worker tricycles lies at the intersection between contested street politics and everyday informal cycling in Mexico City. His professional work swerves into cycling activism, lecturing about architecture criticism, and occasionally leading design projects, but he has primarily worked as an independent urban consultant in Mexico.
Education
MArch. New Urbanism, ITESM, Querétaro (Mexico) | 2010
BArch., ITESM Querétaro (Mexico) | 2008
Cohort
- 2014-2015