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COVID19 Places: India

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This essay scaffolds a discussion of how COVID19 is unfolding in India. A central question this essay hopes to build towards is: If we examine the ways COVID19 is unfolding in India, does "Ind

Air pollution monitoring in El Vado

We used two particulate matter (PM) monitoring networks, while sharing with neighbors the chemical components of PM and its impacts on health.

 

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Citizen science to El Vado community

In connection with other research groups at the university, we got in touch with neighbors of El Vado in order to discuss what they thought of the urban intervention and in an attempt to include ci

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Tactic urbanism intervention on El Vado

This past September 2019, Llactalab—an urban studies research group at University of Cuenca—proposed a tactical urbanism intervention with the aim of reducing pedestrians’ mobility risks in the str

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El Vado air pollution stories

According to Juan, a metal worker air quality has only decreased over the years causing lung cancer among some of his colleagues and close kin.

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air pollution social protest in El Vado

In 2010, artists and craftsmen-women who rent small local businesses, started an initiative against noise and air pollution resulting from excessive bus/car traffic.

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Car traffic in El Vado

The elevated number of cars that pass through the narrow uphill street of La Condamine—located in the heart of this neighborhood—sees over 7000 vehicles per day and has generated a conflictive area

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