Laysa Abchiche Lima

Laysa Abchiche is a Planning Ph.D Candidate at the University of Toronto (UofT) and a Senior Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Infrastructure (MOI). Her work focuses on analyzing entrepreneurial urban strategies such as waterfront or urban revitalization, megaevents organization and their effects on the contemporary city. Her current research explores how social exclusion materializes in the built environment through the case study of the Montreal Olympics 1976. Mapping social exclusion involves assessing the impact of the built environment on different social groups and identifying potential barriers or inequalities that may result from design decisions. The idea is to discuss the role of architecture and planning in constructing intersubjectivity in the contemporary city, and how this can exclude or include who we recognize as fellow citizens. She has previously worked as an architect, and urban planner in Algiers (Algeria), Brasília and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Publications

Palm, M., Dos Santos, H., Abchiche-Lima, L., Hosford, K., Comeau, É., Newbold, K. B., Ross, T., Winters, M., Widener, M. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Transportation Inequities in Canada: A Scoping Review. Mobilizing Justice. https://mobilizingjustice.ca/rapports/

Abchiche-Lima, L. (2021). Exclusion, space, and planning: the case of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Paranoa: Journal of Architecture and Urbanism.

Abchiche-Lima, L. (2018). City marketing in strategic urban planning: the case of Porto Maravilha’s urban legacy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 48TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE URBAN AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION (UAA)

Abchiche-Lima, L. (2016). The sustainable city as a product of city marketing: urban mobility solutions in the case of Porto Maravilha. PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE NETWORK OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY (PNUM) 

Supervisor

Jason Hackworth