Claudio Sarmiento-Casas

PhD Student, (he/him)
c.sarmiento.casas@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Policy & Planning
  • Social & Political Geography
  • Urban

Areas of Interest

Active transportation planning in Latin America, pedestrian and vélo-mobilities, urban cycling policies, street design, gentrification studies, urban pedagogy, history and planning of Mexican cities

Working Dissertation

Title

Peddlers or pedalers? Street redesign policies and the itinerant bicycle trades of Mexico City

Supervisors

Paul Hess
Ron Buliung
Rajyashree Narayanareddy

Biography

Claudio Sarmiento-Casas is an architect and a doctoral student at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His main research on bicycle trades and worker tricycles lies at the intersection between contested street politics and everyday informal cycling in Mexico City. His professional work swerves into cycling activism, lecturing about architecture criticism, and occasionally leading design projects, but he has primarily worked as an independent urban consultant in Mexico.

Education

MArch. New Urbanism, ITESM, Querétaro (Mexico) | 2010
BArch., ITESM Querétaro (Mexico) | 2008

Cohort

  • 2014-2015