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Agents of Change: Institutionalizing Progressive Planning Practices in Medellin, Colombia

Identifying how community-based organizations in Medellin, Colombia, use actions and strategies to positively affect planning practices.

Medellin, Colombia, has gained wide international attention for its large-scale urban transformation, where the city’s community-based organizations (CBOs) have had moderate success altering planning practices in a context framed by institutional weakness, economic inequality and spatial fragmentation. However, more research is needed to understand which actions and strategies have led to true change. Andrea Restrepo-Mieth is addressing this knowledge gap by partnering with one of Medellin’s oldest and most established CBOs on a case study that examines how CBOs — which have little economic and political power — strategize the use of contention, collaboration and negotiation in pursuit of institutionalization.

Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Economic Vitality and Entrepreneurship; Law, Government and Policy

The Team

  • Graduate student:  Andrea Restrepo-Mieth, city and regional planning
  • Special committee chair:  Mildred Warner, Department of City and Regional Planning

    College of Architecture, Art and Planning

  • Community partner:  Corporación Con-Vivamos

In the News

APRIL 28, 2017 
Ph.D. Candidate in CRP Receives Three Grants for Research and Travel
– College of Architecture, Art and Planning


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