Institutional development · Sustainability and civic impact · Mexico
Sergio Fajardo sets out four keys to 'social urbanism' at Tec de Monterrey Guadalajara
The Colombian academic and public leader told students and faculty at Tec de Monterrey's Guadalajara campus that communities must take part in their own transformation.
Why it matters: Students and faculty at Tec Guadalajara heard Fajardo argue that infrastructure projects are social projects shaped by community participation.
Tec de Monterrey reported that Sergio Fajardo, a Colombian academic and public leader, visited its Guadalajara campus and listed four keys for bringing what he calls social urbanism into communities.
Speaking to the campus's students and teachers, Fajardo stressed education, citizen participation and the recovery of public spaces as drivers of socially oriented public policy, according to the university.
Fajardo said every infrastructure project is a social project, describing social urbanism as actions or innovations applied to a territory in pursuit of the common good.
Editor’s view
Abigail Taylor, Leadership and Governance Editor
The lecture put to students and faculty at Tec Guadalajara the case that community participation, education and recovered public spaces should drive public works, with each building treated as a tool of social transformation.
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