Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
The last 50 years have seen a fourfold increase in Peru’s urban population, a process that has added 20 million people to its cities. This accelerated urban expansion has occurred mainly through the informal, unplanned occupation of the territory—which has generated cities where vast areas do not have adequate access to basic services, public spaces, urban infrastructure, and economic opportunities in general.
GRADE’s urban development research agenda seeks to help reduce the exclusion and inefficiency associated with such disorderly growth, and to prevent such expansion patterns from continuing to reproduce indefinitely. For this, GRADE has focused its efforts on the development and adaptation of accessible and low-cost technological tools that, on the one hand, facilitate the detailed and systematic analysis of urban problems, and on the other, help the relevant public and private stakeholders to improve the governance of cities—especially in their expansion areas.
The tools and analysis developed by GRADE can be adapted and applied in the rest of the Global South, where urbanization processes are replicating several of the patterns already observed in Peru. For this reason, GRADE seeks to promote cooperation channels that would allow the efficient and direct transfer of experiences and knowledge in the South-South axis.
Senior Researchers
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Ricardo Fort Meyer
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Álvaro Espinoza Benza
Master en Political Science - New School of Social Research
Álvaro graduated in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. He is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. His work has focused on public management, institutional economics and urban development. Álvaro has a broad experience as a […]
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News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Por un Modelo Peruano: capital social para enfrentar la crisis
April 28, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
El esfuerzo inicial del gobierno para enfrentar la crisis por la pandemia —cuarentena y asistencia social— va llegando inevitablemente a su fin. Sin embargo, el Perú no es ajeno a experiencias que han combinado muerte y recesión económica a gran escala. Nuestras respuestas ante estas crisis han construido un “Modelo Peruano” caracterizado por la organización […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Alvaro Espinoza in TV Perú: food markets in priority areas of prevention and control for COVID-19
April 9, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“We have looked at the areas with characteristics such as higher concentration of elderly, greater overcrowding in households, higher population density, and lack of water.” Alvaro Espinoza, adjunct researcher at GRADE, spoke with TVPerú about the identification of markets and supermarkets that serve the population living in areas of high vulnerability to the virus in […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
COVID-19: Fighting against the virus from the territory, by Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza
April 8, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“Prevention and control measures should be established for those geographical areas where the risks and consequences of the spread of the disease are greatest”. Read the new article by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza for El Comercio. Our researchers explain their analysis to identify the supply centers located within the priority areas in Lima: those with the largest number […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
La Mula: GRADE identifies at least 235 food markets in Lima as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion
April 7, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
La Mula highlighted the findings and recommendations of the identification analysis of markets and supermarkets located in the areas most vulnerable to the spread of the virus. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, shared his thoughts: “The idea is not only that we should try to restrict the exit of older people who live in that […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort in 24 Hours: Food markets in Lima as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion
April 7, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“These are the areas where the authorities should be doing preventive measures, ensuring that the food markets are properly cleaned, that the vendors handle the products well, that there is social distancing. One could even do rapid tests for temperature or virus transmission to prevent it from spreading through those territories. ” Our senior researcher, […]
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