{"id":3339,"date":"2024-04-01T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:59:43","slug":"concealed-public-transportation-in-latin-america-a-rediscovery-by-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/concealed-public-transportation-in-latin-america-a-rediscovery-by-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Concealed Public Transportation in Latin America: A Rediscovery by Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Concealed Public Transportation in Latin America: A Rediscovery by Bus<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>&nbsp;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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In his article for&nbsp;<em>ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America,&nbsp;<\/em>Juan reflects on his research on <em>colectivos, <\/em>privately-owned public transportation, as forms of concealed city infrastructure. He shares how his research began in Mexico City as a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/portfolio\/2022-fellows\/\">2022 MCI Summer Research,<\/a> and later evolved into a comparative investigation of&nbsp;<em>colectivos<\/em> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the full article at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/revista.drclas.harvard.edu\/concealed-public-transportation-in-latin-america-a-rediscovery-by-bus\/\">ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America <\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concealed Public Transportation in Latin America: A Rediscovery by Bus Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Gonz\u00e1lez&nbsp;is a Master of Architecture Candidate at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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