RESEARCH

My research extends across different sites and scales. In the United States I have examined the scalar politics of social movements in new immigrant spaces in California. I have also explored the governance dynamics of regional development in Latin America and the US-Mexico border. Most recently,  I analyzed how the politics of climate change, international development and urban democracy intersect in the transformation of Mexico City’s transportation, climate change adaptation urban governance structures.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Sosa Lopez, Oscar (Forth). Bicycle Policy in Mexico City: Urban Experiments and Differentiated Citizenship, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Jajamovich, Guillermo, Sosa Lopez, O. and Silvestre, G. (Forth) “Latin American Cities” in, Companion to Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley & Sons.

Sosa Lopez, Oscar and Montero, S. (2017). “Expert-citizens: producing and contesting the “sustainable urban mobility” paradigm in Mexico”. Journal of Transport Geography.  67, 137-144. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692316303635

Sosa, Oscar (2016). “Urban Mobility and Politics in Mexico City: The Case of Frente Amplio Contra la Supervía”. Latin American Perspectives.   http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X16682781

Schafran, A., Sosa, O, & Gin, J. L. (2013). “Politics and possibility on the metropolitan edge: the scale of social movement space in exurbia”. Environment and Planning A, 45(12), 2833-2851.    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/a45570

Sosa, Oscar (2008). “Border Planning in the San Diego–Tijuana Region: Local Planning vis-à-vis National Policy”. Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 21. 169-185.   http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5th0w62n#

 

IN PREPARATION

Sosa Lopez, Oscar and Silva, Diego. “The National Circulation of Bus Rapid Transit in Mexico and Colombia: from the local to the national and back”.

 

BOOK REVIEW

Sosa, Oscar (2008).“Book Review: Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S-Mexico Border and Its Future, by Fernando Romero”. Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 21. 206-207.

 

POLICY RESEARCH

Sosa Lopez, Oscar, Lamba-Nieves, D. and Santiago, R. (2019) “Urban Informality: International Trends and Policies to Address Land Tenure and Informal Settlements” for Center for a New Economy, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Chapple, K., Montero, S. and Sosa, O. (2012). “Editor’s Introduction, Evolving Regionalismos: Latin American Regions in the 21st Century”. in Regional Development Dialogue, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Vol. 33. ii-xv.

Sosa, Oscar and Brenner, Alex. (2010). “Innovating the Green Economy in California Regions, San Diego Case Study” in Innovating the Green Economy in California Regions, Karen Chapple and Malo Hutson (PIs). US Economic Development Administration / UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation.