Paula Freire Santoro

Brazilian architect and urbanist settled in São Paulo. Professor of urban planning at School of Architecture and Urbanism at São Paulo University (FAUUSP) (2013-today). Co-cordinates, with Raquel Rolnik, investigations at LabCidade (http://www.labcidade.fau.usp.br/). Master in Urban Ambiental Structures, University of São Paulo, School of Architecture and Urbanism (2004) and PhD in Habitat – FAUUSP (2012), and PhD fellow at Universidade Politécnica da Cataluña (ETSAB-UPC) at Barcelona (2010) and PhD fellow of Lincoln Insitute of Land Policy (2011). Attended specialization in Land Policy in Latin America by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Panama (2007). Before that, she was a Technical Assistant at Public Ministry of São Paulo’s State in Housing, Urbanism and Environment, and teached at Escola da Cidade (2009-2012). Researcher on Urbanism at Instituto Pólis (2001-2011), of Environment Institute – ISA (2007-2008) and researcher at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), at Metropolitan Urbanism Lab (LUME) (1999-2001). In 2009 worked in Brazilian Government Cooperation with Mozambique for the preparation of the National Housing Policy. Was editorial coordinator of publications at Instituto Pólis (2002-2007).