Auteur: Paulina Cepeda Pico

Fernando Carrión Mena graduated from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. He is Academic at Flacso Ecuador. Its focuses of study are the topics of housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and the sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1, 000 journalistic articles and 306 academic ones, published 76 books (editor of 52 and author of 24) and published 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career, he won 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinguished citizenship distinctions. He was the director of the CIUDAD Research Center, FLACSO, Municipal Urban Planning, as well as a consultant to the Municipality of Quito. He is considered one of the 50 most influential Ibero-American intellectuals. Paulina Cepeda graduated from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. She is Academic of FLASO-Ecuador. She is Architect by profession and completed Master of Research in Urban Studies with a research grant. She is Senior Architect, developing heritage housing restoration and rehabilitation projects, design and construction of new projects and urban consultancies to municipalities. Within the academic field, her lines of research are housing policies, urban planning, governance, market and land policies, with several articles and books on the matter. Coordinator of the Urbs.tic interurban Alliance dedicated to the development of critical thinking in the region, which brings together four universities: UNAM Mexico, FLACSO Ecuador, UNC from Argentina and UFRJ from Brazil. Founder of the Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) that brings together universities in southern Europe, Latin America and Africa and founder of POLIS.TIC, a local urban network.