ACSP Meet the Author: David López-García
October 19, 2023
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM America/Chicago
Location
Palmer House Hilton - ACSP Community Cafe
Address
17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
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Are you registered to attend the 2023 ACSP Conference? Please stop by the UPP lounge in the Community Cafe and join us for our lunchtime Meet the Authors Series!
On Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th, David López-García will be in the lounge to discuss his new publication, Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America: Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City.
This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.
Four empirical studies provide the reader with a comprehensive view of how urban policies can sometimes interact at cross-purposes to produce inequitable urban outcomes. The chapters analyze time and distance in the journey to work to quantify and map commuting inequalities, assess the shift in the spatial location of the demand for labor between 1999 and 2019, examine the default housing pathways available for workers, and evaluate the spatial distribution of public and common mobility resources. An outcome of applying the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of workers’ mobility is to put forward the choiceless mobility hypothesis: a process by which the interaction between the spatial location of the demand for labor, the housing pathways available for workers, and the political economy of public transport operates to produce geographies of low accessibility to jobs.
The audience of this book consists of scholars and practitioners in the fields field of urban policy analysis, urban development, and urban political economy in the Global South.
About the Author
David López-García is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research looks at shifts in urban spatial structure in large Latin American urban regions and its implications for accessibility to jobs and workers’ quality of life. He also looks at the policy-making process of state-led efforts that aim to influence the evolution of urban spatial structure. His book “Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America: Policy interactions and urban outcomes in Mexico City”, result of his doctoral dissertation, was published in 2023 by Routledge. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Urban Affairs, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Journal of Urbanism, and Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos. He serves as the Academic Coordinator for the Latin American Chapter of the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low-Income Communities (INTALInC-LAC).
Date posted
Oct 12, 2023
Date updated
Oct 12, 2023