PUBLICATIONS

Urbanism as Warfare: Planning, Insecurity, and the Remaking of Downtown Bogotá.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025.

“Retrofit: Aerial Cable Cars and the Reengineering of Urban Peripheries.”

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 43, no. 1 (2025): 8-28.

“‘The Miracle of Density': The Socio‐material Epistemics of Urban Densification.”

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44, no. 4 (2020): 617-635.

“An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá.”

In Life Among Urban Planners: Practices, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City. J. Mack and M. Herzfeld, eds. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

“Laboratories of Urban Reconstruction: Towards an Anthropology of Urban Policy in Colombia.”

Antípoda No.10 (Antropología de la Política Pública), Enero – Junio 2010: 51-84. Online Version. [In Spanish]

“Urban Renewal in Context.”

In De la Renovación a la Revitalización: Desafíos para Bogotá. Bogotá: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá y Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, 2015. [In Spanish]

OTHER WRITINGS

2020 For the War Yet to Come by Hiba Bou Akar. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Society and Space Book Forum.

2020 Bogotá’s Urban Development Conflicts: Insecurity & Memory in the City. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (Layered Metropolis Series), Social Science Research Council, Online Publication.

2016    Endangered City: the politics of security and risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Anthropological Quarterly, 89(4): 1227-1237. 

2015    "Post-Conflict Urbanism and The Logics of Warfare In Colombia." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, April 30, 2015. Online Version.

2013    “Peopling Space: Contemporary Redevelopment in Bogotá.” openDemocracy (Cities in Conflict), 4 March 2013. Online Version.

2012    “Bogotá: Up Against the City.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture. October 2012. Online Version. 

2009    Bogotá, from decay to construction 1995-2007, co-authored with Alicia Eugenia Silva, Francisco Ruiz and Tomás Martín. Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario.  [In Spanish].