Social Housing: focusing in urban services and facilities required to consolidate vulnerable residential neighbourhoods Space Syntax: modelling and representation of space to study social phenomena Urban Project: interdisciplinary approach

Post Graduate Student:
- Franciney Carreiro de França AS CASAS-MUSEUS DE PABLO NERUDA: CRIAÇÃO, HABITAÇÃO E NARRATIVA. Franciney Carreiro de França é Mestre e Doutora em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/UnB), Bacharel em Matemática (UFG), assessora técnica do Senado Federal, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil.

Phd Thesis in Architecture and Urbanism:
- Aaron Napadensky (2012) Espacios Y Prácticas De La Escena Comercial En La Ciudad Del Consumo Masivo. El Shopping Mall Como Elementos De Una Fragmentación Urbana Inclusiva. Mall Parque Arauco/Spaces And Practices Of The Scene In The Town Commercial Consumer Products. The Elements Shopping Mall As An Inclusive Urban Fragmentation. Parque Arauco Mall: 1982-2007. School of Architecture, PUC.

Master Thesis in Architecture:
- Bernardo Rosero (2013) 4 Horas mas. Intensificación Y Reciclaje En El Barrio González Suárez, Núcleo Central Del Centro Histórico De Quito, Como Etapa Intermedia Hacia Un Proceso De Recuperación/4 hours more. Boosting and Recycling In The Neighborhood González Suárez, Historic Central Nucleus, Quito Center, as Midstream Towards Recovery Process. School of Achitecture. PUC.

Master Thesis in Urban Project:
- Larry Cortés (2012) El Pericentro De Coquimbo. Como Escenario De Renovacion Estrategica. Analisis Y Propuestas De Diseño Urbano/ Analysis and Urban Design Proposals, The Pericenter from Coquimbo as scenario of Strategic Renewal., School of Architecture, PUC.

Five Master Thesis in Process.

Undergraduate Thesis/Memories

A. Aula Abierta del Centro de Santiago/Open Aula Santiago Center
1. Macarena Tabilo (2009)
B. Aula de Vivienda Incremental/Incremental Housing Hall
2. Magdalena Lopez (2011)
3. Gustavo Santibañez (2011)
4. Cristián Lavin (2011)
5. Cristian Jorquera (2011)
6. Gustavo Ruiz (2011)
7. Marcello Licitra (2011)
C. Aula de Vivienda y Movilidad: Oportunidad Urbana/Aula of Housing and Mobility: Urban Opportunity
8. Paloma Buguedo (2012)
9. Sebastián Palma (2012)
10. Juan Carlos Yanine (2012)
11. Juan Luis Fresno (2012)
12. Jose Manuel Vidal (2013)

Two undergraduate thesis in process.

Today the majority of the world population lives in cities, but instead of diminishing poverty it has been urbanised and given a new face. The quality of life that city’s offer to much of its population, particularly in developing countries, is below acceptable levels. The actors (ministries, local governments, NGOs, civil organisations, private developers) and professionals (transport engineering, planners, economists, sociologists, and others) intervening the cities, each have their own interests, methods and perspectives with little collaborative work. In this context, serious evidence based multidisciplinary work needs to be carried out in the next years.

I have dedicated most of my academic life to the improvement of the built environment of the urban poor in Latin America. From the evaluation and implementation of sanitation and slum improvement programmes, to incremental programmes and self-help housing initiatives, neighbourhood improvement interventions and preservation of heritage areas. These experiences carried out with support of IDB and World Bank were shared in Uniited Nations World Forums and through academic networks (MIT in USA, DPU at UCL in UK, TUB in Germany and many other Higher Educationa Instiotutions in South America, Australia and Europe).

Through this long experience I have come to realize that one vital variable that was not been considered enough was the spatial configuration. It is important to understand the effect that space has on movement flows, in urban differentiation and in land use. It is also vital to work in an expanded field, where various disciplines would meet, enlarge their specific traditional fields, looking for synergies. In this line of thought I have been coordinating through an Alfa Structural Project financed by the European Union, in the last year and a half a network of 18 Higher Education Institutions from 18 countries from Latin America and Europe where we are studying the role and contribution that the professionals in the urban field will make for creating a sustainable urban environment in the 21st century. Our aim is not only to improve the effectivenes and employability of our graduates but also to improve the quality of life of the urban population, specially the traditionally excluded urban poor.