Latino Placemaking and Planning w Dr. Jesus Lara

Recorded with Zoom Webinar January 18 2022 Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million or approximately one third of the countrys total population. As the urban component of this population increases the need for resources to support it will generate new cultural and economic stresses. Latino Placemaking and Planning offers a pathway to define analyze and evaluate the role that placemaking can have with respect to Latino communities in the context of contemporary urban planning policy and design practices. Using strategically selected case studies Jesus J. Lara examines how Latinos contribute to the phenomenon of urban revitalization through the reappropriation of physical space for their own use and the consequent transformation of what were previously economically downtrodden areas into vibrant commercial and residential centers. Jesus J. Lara is a Professor in the Knowlton Schools City and Regional Planning Section at Ohio State University. His research and pedagogy are centered on sustainable urban design Latino Urbanism community development and on the sociocultural factors which influence planning and design. He is both co-editor and principal contributor in Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape Routledge 2013. He is also the guest editor and contributor of a special issue of Journal of Urbanism entitled International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability in 21st Century American Cities. He is further the sole author of Latino Placemaking and Planning: Cultural Resiliency and Strategies for Re-urbanization University of Arizona Press 2018 a work which examines the application of the principles of Latino Urbanism in the revitalization of American cities. Prof. Lara received a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from California State Polytechnic University in 1994 a Masters in both Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture from the University of Southern California in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University in 2006. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University the Netherlands between 2003 and 2004. Between 2014 and 2015 Prof. Lara was a visiting professor at the Institute for European Urban Studies IfEU at Bauhaus Universität Weimar Germany.,

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