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Mapping Water: Cartographic Lessons from Ancient China

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on September 28, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Shanghai peri urban. 2019. Ernesto Valero Thomas

Mapping. I truly believe that hybrid methods of mapping help to achieve better architecture and ecological design. For nearly a decade I have studied the role of hybrid cartography as a key […]

Walkable Cities, a matter of geometry

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on December 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Seoul, 2019. Ernesto Valero Thomas

Every time I come across the topic of sustainable urban mobility, walkability is treated as a key factor to improve our experience in cities. However, my feeling is that more often than […]

In Search of Eco-Storytellers

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on November 14, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )
Seoul, South Korea. June 2019. Photo: Ernesto Valero Thomas

On certain occasions, words used in the mass media capture the spirit of the times. The term Eco-Anxiety is all over the news. It is treated as a raising psychological condition that […]

Sustainable Orientalism: Western Fantasies of Mexico and their Representations

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on April 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
TIME COVER, 1982

Sustainable Orientalism. I have explored this concept since 2011. It has helped me to identify and expose discourses, representations, and institutions that separate the notion of Sustainable Development in ‘advanced’ (Western Europe, […]

Human Scale in Hong Kong 2: The tale of the hidden warrior (3 videos)

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on January 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Human Scale in Hong Kong: The tale of Grandfather and Grandson (3 videos)

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on January 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Video Still, Ernesto Valero Thomas, 2017

The Art of Research: Words, Stories & Diagrams in the Design Process

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on November 7, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Architecture and design belong to an anxious world. Thousands of design alternatives in thousands of cities and villages around the globe. Architecture and design students are exposed to infinite tools of research, […]

Measuring the Unmeasurable: Human Scale in Chinese Cities

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on November 5, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Urban Constellations. This is a common metaphor that I have encountered in the fields of human geography and urban studies. The most comprehensive set of global data about urban expansion in the […]

Sustainable Architecture in Rural China

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on November 5, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

   

Architecture-Ecology-Cities

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on November 4, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Environmental Sciences-Architecture-Urban Design. Over the last two years, I have explored this approach with my experience as Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, and as Senior Lecturer in China. The book Ecology and the Architectural Imagination has […]

Publications and Collaborations

Paper: Sustainable Orientalism
Research in Book: Drawdown
Editorial Committee EAR

Paper: The Crisis of Mobility and Public Space
Mobility project in Mexico City, mentioned in the book The High Line

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  • Design Earth by El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn
  • Environmental Knowledge for Change GREDA-NORWAY
  • FUTURE EARTH
  • Global Footprint Network
  • Great Reads
  • GREEN CLIMATE FUND
  • ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
  • IPBES: The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
  • Network for Strengthening the Informal City (NSIC)
  • New Geography
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

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  • Clean Mobility
  • On China
  • On Mexico
  • Research and Teaching in China
  • Rural Design
  • Urban Design

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Mapping Water: Cartographic Lessons from Ancient China
Walkable Cities, a matter of geometry
In Search of Eco-Storytellers
Sustainable Orientalism: Western Fantasies of Mexico and their Representations
Human Scale in Hong Kong 2: The tale of the hidden warrior (3 videos)
Human Scale in Hong Kong: The tale of Grandfather and Grandson (3 videos)
The Art of Research: Words, Stories & Diagrams in the Design Process
The Art of Research: Bodies, Stories, Diagrams in the Design Process
Sustainable Orientalism (UCLA, 2015)
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