Concealed Public Transportation in Latin America: A Rediscovery by Bus
Juan Fernández González is a Master of Architecture Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Architectural Sketching Course Lecturer at McGill University. He grew up in Cuernavaca (Mexico) and Montreal (Canada).
In his article for ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Juan reflects on his research on colectivos, privately-owned public transportation, as forms of concealed city infrastructure. He shares how his research began in Mexico City as a 2022 MCI Summer Research, and later evolved into a comparative investigation of colectivos in Buenos Aires and Santiago. He is currently working on a publication that draws lessons from Buenos Aires and Santiago to inform public transportation policy in Mexico City.
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