{"id":3090,"date":"2022-03-06T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:21:15","slug":"avocado-urbanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/avocado-urbanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocado Urbanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Avocado Urbanisms<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/files\/2022\/03\/avocado-urbanisms-1024x828-1.png\" alt=\"Map of Michoac\u00e1n Mexico showing avocado production \" class=\"wp-image-4155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/files\/2022\/03\/avocado-urbanisms-1024x828-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/files\/2022\/03\/avocado-urbanisms-1024x828-1-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/files\/2022\/03\/avocado-urbanisms-1024x828-1-150x121.png 150w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/files\/2022\/03\/avocado-urbanisms-1024x828-1-768x621.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"mark6ugxgmixq\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Gerardo<\/span> Corona is pursuing a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard GSD. He is an architect trained in Mexico with experience in projects across a variety of scales. Gerardo&#8217;s current interests range from the political economy of space to the dichotomy of natural and built environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The economic, social, and environmental vulnerabilities of avocado cultivation in the Meseta Pur\u00e9pecha region of Michoac\u00e1n embody the inequities and unsustainability of global food production chains which have emerged in the last half-century. This landscape of production, once dominated by the Hass avocado tree, is a visible expression of the issues associated with rapid changes in land use and ownership, which privileges consolidating capital profits over the long-term needs of local communities and regional environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avocado Urbanisms Gerardo Corona is pursuing a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard GSD. 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