Autor: Fernando Urrea Giraldo

Juber Galeano Loaiza Economist from the Universidad del Valle (1991), specialist in Regional Urban Planning (1999) and MA in Regional Urban Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, at Medellín (2003). Professor and researcher at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Universidad de San Buenaventura at Cali. He has been a consultant in the formulation of municipal and departmental land-use plans and in the urban and financial simulations of partial plans and urban macro-projects. He is the head of the research group Architecture, urban planning, and aesthetics of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts, and Design of the Universidad de San Buenaventura at Cali. Fernando Urrea Giraldo Sociologist (1970), MA in Political Science, Universidad de los Andes (1980). Emeritus Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Universidad del Valle, and Researcher at CIDSE (1984-present). His lines of research focus on racial and labor studies; social class and ethnicity-race; the intersections between gender, sexual identities, ethnicity-race, and social class (black, indigenous and white-mestizo masculinities and femininities); violence, crime, and ethnicity-race. Maria Isabel Caicedo Hurtado Economist from Universidad del Valle (2014) with an MA in Applied Economics (2019). Member of the COAPTAR research group at the Center for Socioeconomic Research and Documentation of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences (CIDSE). She served as the Technical Secretary of the Alliance of Universities for Regional Urban Development. Currently, she works at CIDSE“s Urban Laboratory. Her research interests lies in the problems of youth employment; violence; crime and labor.