
Leandro Benmergui
@leanbenmergui
Historian | Latin America | Cities | Purchase College- SUNY
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My book review of “Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]” (ed. by Prof. Sarah Feldman) is now available online Planning Perspectives. tandfonline.com/eprint/ZDJ8MNW…




We're very proud to announce that faculty members Leandro Benmergui, Alfredo Garcia-Pardo, and Aviva Taubenfeld have received a major grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to support humanities initiatives for Hispanic Serving Institutions. #NEHGrant #hiNEH purchase.edu/live/news/6998…


My book review of Adrián Gorelik’s “La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX” is now available online Planning Perspectives. 800 words is not enough for such an important and complex book. tandfonline.com/eprint/CJMYUMF…


Urban reform in 1920s Rio de Janeiro as a racial project. My book review of Lorraine Leu's "Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) is now available online Planning Perspectives . tandfonline.com/eprint/QAHCDWU…


My book review of "Historia y memoria de villas y favelas" (2022) edited by Maria Cristina Cravino is out now online in Planning Perspectives . Outstanding contributions on the history and memory of informal settlements in Latin America. tandfonline.com/eprint/WNXFPTG…


On February 15 at 6:00 PM, come to Purchase College, SUNY to hear Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Leandro Benmergui as part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series. purchase.edu/calendar/event…

Join us tomorrow Thursday, February 15th, Purchase College, SUNY

My review of Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital by Ijlal Muzaffar is out now in planningperspectives. doi.org/10.1080/026654…

Muito feliz e honrado em abrir o I Seminário RIO DE JANEIRO SUBURBANO: OLHARES SOBRE A CIDADE, nos dias 5, 6 e 7 de junho na UERJ – Maracanã. Pesquisas, arte, memória, urbanismo e vida cotidiana em foco nos subúrbios do Rio. CIDADES: Núcleo de Pesquisa Urbana - UERJ/PPCIS


My review of David Yee’s Informal Metropolis (2024) is now out in Planning Perspectives. A powerful history of how Neza, Mexico City, emerged from land speculation, popular organizing, and state exclusion. tandfonline.com/eprint/CVERZJX…