Mariana Fix on "Commodification & Financialization of the City"

At this episode we have Professor Mariana Fix from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo. Mariana talks to us about the "Commodification & Financialization of the City". Mariana Fix is the author of the books “Partners in Exclusion” (Parceiros da exclusão) and “São Paulo, Global City” (São Paulo, Cidade Global), both published in Brazil. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Campinas, a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and she is also an architect. She was IIAS Re-Theorizing Housing as Architecture Research Fellow and was a visiting research scholar at CUNY’s Graduate Centre as an Urban Studies Foundation fellow. She is a member of the Housing and Human Settlements Laboratory at FAU-USP, and has been working with Right to the City movements for several years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.