Presentation by Fulbright Visiting Scholar Nabil Bonduki

Comments by Carter Koppelman (PhD Candidate, Sociology)

Fulbright Visiting Scholar from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), Professor Nabil Bonduki shares his experiences with housing policy and urban planning, both in academia and the government of São Paulo. He will present on affordable housing policies and the City of São Paulo’s Master Plans (2002 and 2014).

Nabil Bonduki is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), former superintendent of Municipal Low-income Housing (1989-92), elected City Councilor (2001-2004 and 2013-2016), and Municipal Secretary in the Department of Culture (2015-2016) for the City of São Paulo. Professor Bonduki is the author and rapporteur of two Master Plans for São Paulo (2002 and 2014), and has contributed to and authored several bills that shaped the future of São Paulo and other cities across Brazil. Author of thirteen books and publications, amongst them “Origens da Habitação Social no Brasil” (Estação Liberdade, 1998), “Pioneiros da Habitação Social” (Unesp/Sesc, 2014) and “Intervenções Urbanas a Recuperação Centros Históricos” (Monumenta/Iphan, 2010).

Carter Koppelman is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on how states use developmental and social policies to manage the urban poor, and how those policies are understood, used, and contested in citizens' everyday lives. His doctoral dissertation is titled 'Property Owners and Not Proletarians': Housing Policy and the Contested Production of Neoliberal Subjects in Chile and Brazil. Through a comparative ethnography of grassroots organizations of homeless city-dwellers in Santiago and São Paulo, it examines how the rise of market-oriented housing policies in Latin America has shaped 21st-century urban struggles and produced new meanings and practices of citizenship across different urban political contexts.