Diane E. Davis

Felipe Vera

Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Jorge Silva

Belinda Tato

Tomas Bermudez

Tatiana Gallego-Lizón

Sarah Benton

Andrés Blanco Blanco

David Razu

Diego Arcia

Enrique Silva

Douglas Barrios

Miguel Ángel Santos

Juan Santamaría

Rubén Segovia

Claudia Tomateo

Cesar Castro

Neha B. Joseph

Konstantina Tzemou

Patricia Álvarez

Theodore Kofman

Samuel Matthew

Aaron Ramirez

Andreina Seijas

Claire Summers

Kate Wolf

Diana Zwetzich

Jorge Toledo

José Luis Vallejo

Adriana Chávez

Daniel Stagno

This publication summarizes the outcomes and lessons learned from the Fall 2017 course titled “Emergent Urbanism: Planning and Design Visions for the City of Hermosillo, Mexico” (ADV-9146). Taught by professors Diane Davis and Felipe Vera, this course asked a group of 12 students to design a set of projects that could lay the groundwork for a sustainable future for the city of Hermosillo—an emerging city located in northwest Mexico and the capital of the state of Sonora. Part of a larger initiative funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and the North-American Development Bank in partnership with Harvard University, ideas developed for this class were the product of collaboration between faculty and students at the Graduate School of Design, the Kennedy School’s Center for International Development and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The Case of Hermosillo

City Design, Planning & Policy Innovations

Rahul Mehrotra

José Mayoral

"As one of the outcomes of the Ephemeral City Research Project conceived in the Harvard Graduate School of Design with the aim of bringing to light the idea that nonpermanent configurations of the urban landscape are legitimate within the discourse on cities this book describes temporary settlements from all over the world that challenge the illusion of the permanence of the urban landscape. Ephemeral Urbanism invites us to ponder over aspects of material impermanence such as dematerialization and disassembly as an integral part of the designand construction processes of cities. Ranging from the scale of the small temporary infill within the urban, to the scale of the ephemeral mega cities, this book gives an overview of hundreds of cases, analyzing settlements or configurations that are constructed for a limited period of time. Through diagrams, photographs and aerial images, this preliminary survey presents an exploration of ome interesting prototypes of flexible urban planning and design. Texts by Richard Sennett and Ricky Burdett give the appropriate framework to understand the relevance of this book."--Provider.

Ephemeral Urbanism

Felipe Vera

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