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Drops in the Valley: Claiming Waterscapes in Mexico City

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on February 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The year is 2021. Mexico City and its immediate surroundings have experienced a persistent ecocide on their lands and bodies of water for at least 60 years. During half of this time […]

Urban Mobility and Architecture: Designing Small, Approachable Infrastructures of Transportation in China

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on March 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Gasoline stations have been objects of interest in the fields of architecture and urban studies for decades. Frank Lloyd Wright completed the R. W. Lindholm Service Station in 1958. The design of this building foresaw […]

The Sustainable House of Don Juan and Doña Socorro

By Ernesto Valero Thomas on March 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Don Juan and Doña Socorro: I met Don Juan and Doña Socorro in January 2012, during one of my PhD field trips to Mexico. Both were over 80 years old, and lived on the “Hill of the Mask”. They passed away few years ago. […]

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, […]

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Interview March 2021

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UNAM School of Architecture_Spanish_September 2021
Teaching in China, November 2017

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
  • RTI Environmental Sciences
  • Santa Fe Institute
  • Studies on Urban Waste
  • Suprageography
  • UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

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  • Clean Mobility
  • On China
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  • Research and Teaching in China
  • Rural Design
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Urban Mobility and Architecture: Designing Small, Approachable Infrastructures of Transportation in China
The Sustainable House of Don Juan and Doña Socorro
Drops in the Valley: Claiming Waterscapes in Mexico City
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

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