Urbanisation in Latin America: Exclusion, Marginality and Conflict
- Opening Plenary (Professor Carlos de Mattos, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
- Special Session: Funding Regional Development (Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG), Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) and Inter-American Development Bank (BID))
- Closing Plenary (Professor Silvia Gorenstein, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Opening Plenary
Professor Carlos de Mattos, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Professor Carlos A. de Mattos is one of the most relevant scientists in the Ibero-American world. Of Uruguayan nationality, resides since 1968 in Chile, where he is professor of the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
His initial formation was of architect, obtaining this title in 1963 in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of the Republic, in Montevideo. He then completed a Postgraduate in Economic Development and Planning at the Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES, UN). After completing his studies, he was a researcher and coordinator of regional planning programs in Uruguay between 1965 and 1968. In this last year Santiago de Chile, first as an expert in national and regional planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute of Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), linked to the United Nations, where he remained untied until 1989, and where he has been director of training programs.
He has also been a visiting professor at a number of universities and planning and development institutions in different countries (Italy, Israel, Brazil, Netherlands, France, Argentina, Bolivia, Spain and others). He has had, especially, an ample Ibero-American dimension, for his works, his teaching and his organizational work. He has been general coordinator (1994-1999), and then president (from 1999 until today) of the scientific committee of the Ibero -American Research Network on Globalization and Territory . Since 1966 he has taught courses on theory and practice of planning, public works management, territorial planning, regional growth, economic integration policies, metropolitan area management, decentralization and territorial organization, Impact of globalization at regional and local scales, urban economics, city evolution, urban development, capitalist modernization and urban policies. He has also given a large number of seminars and conferences, and participated in national and international congresses, as a speaker or guest. Among its activities is the organization and management of several master’s degrees in territorial development and management, including the one that has been rotated since 2002 by the National University of Rosario, the National University of Río Cuarto and the Universidad Nacional del Sur Blanca), in the Argentine Republic. It is very well known in Spain where he has been co – director of c ourse on economic restructuring and territorial transformations in Latin America and Spain (Hispanoamericana University of Santa María de La Rabida and University of Seville) and scientific adviser to the Institute of Regional Development at the University of Seville, among others. In relation to all of this, he has conducted master’s theses in the different centers where he has been a teacher, and several doctoral theses in the Architecture and Studies of the City Program, PUC Chile.
As a United Nations expert he has collaborated on numerous studies, reports and projects developed for this organization and its specialized agencies, particularly on Latin America. He has led and participated in numerous research programs funded or commissioned by ECLAC, the Chilean Ministry of Planning and Coordination (MIDEPLAN), the Inter-American Development Bank and others.
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Special Session: Funding Regional Development
Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG), Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) and Inter-American Development Bank (BID)
Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG), Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) and Inter-American Development Bank (BID)
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Closing Plenary
Professor Silvia Gorenstein, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Silvia Gorenstein is an economist, specialist in regional planning and researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina, based at the Institute of Economic and Social Research of the South of the National University of the South (IIESS-UNS). She is the academic director of the Master in Development and Territorial Management at the same university. He has researched and published on agri-food transformations and territorial dynamics.
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