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Alejandro De Castro Mazarro

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ID4608546
NAMEAlejandro De Castro Mazarro
GIVEN NAMESAlejandro De Castro
FAMILY NAMEMazarro
SIGNATUREMAZARRO A C
AFFILIATIONSLeibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
ORCID0000-0002-3048-833X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • Regional perceptions of global environmental injustice: An exploratory case study of water pollution along the Citarum River, Indonesia

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Fitria Aurora Feliciani et al.•ARTICLE•Local Environment•2026

  • How Is Mutual-Help Housing Participatory? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Socio-Spatial Responses to Informality in Chile and Brazil

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Markus Kurth et al.•ARTICLE•Housing Theory and Society•2025•References: 49

  • Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban History•2023•Cited by: 1

    Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slums remains associated with the narrative and geographies of underdevelopment in the context of modernization theory. To deconstruct this narrative and thus contribute to the decolonization of planning discourse, this paper undertakes a historiographic an…

  • Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Ritu George Kaliaden et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    For spatial practices such as architecture, urban design and planning, degrowth remains an abstract concept, as there is no clear alignment of its principles into spatial strategies. To bridge this gap, this paper examines how degrowth can be operationalised into sustainable spatial practices. Through a review of more than 200 sustainable spatial projects across the world operating at the building, neighbourhood and citywide scales, the paper sho…

  • Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model

    Open Access•Jessica M Hemingway, Jessica Hemingway et al.•ARTICLE•Planning Theory & Practice•2022

  • Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Sujit Kumar Sikder et al.•ARTICLE•Habitat International•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 23

  • Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Sujit Kumar Sikder et al.•ARTICLE•Habitat International•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 23

  • Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Ritu George Kaliaden et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    For spatial practices such as architecture, urban design and planning, degrowth remains an abstract concept, as there is no clear alignment of its principles into spatial strategies. To bridge this gap, this paper examines how degrowth can be operationalised into sustainable spatial practices. Through a review of more than 200 sustainable spatial projects across the world operating at the building, neighbourhood and citywide scales, the paper sho…

  • Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban History•2023•Cited by: 1

    Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slums remains associated with the narrative and geographies of underdevelopment in the context of modernization theory. To deconstruct this narrative and thus contribute to the decolonization of planning discourse, this paper undertakes a historiographic an…

  • Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model

    Open Access•Jessica M Hemingway, Jessica Hemingway et al.•ARTICLE•Planning Theory & Practice•2022

  • Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Sujit Kumar Sikder et al.•ARTICLE•Habitat International•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 23

  • Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban History•2023•Cited by: 1

    Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slums remains associated with the narrative and geographies of underdevelopment in the context of modernization theory. To deconstruct this narrative and thus contribute to the decolonization of planning discourse, this paper undertakes a historiographic an…

  • Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Ritu George Kaliaden et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    For spatial practices such as architecture, urban design and planning, degrowth remains an abstract concept, as there is no clear alignment of its principles into spatial strategies. To bridge this gap, this paper examines how degrowth can be operationalised into sustainable spatial practices. Through a review of more than 200 sustainable spatial projects across the world operating at the building, neighbourhood and citywide scales, the paper sho…

  • How Is Mutual-Help Housing Participatory? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Socio-Spatial Responses to Informality in Chile and Brazil

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Markus Kurth et al.•ARTICLE•Housing Theory and Society•2025•References: 49

  • Regional perceptions of global environmental injustice: An exploratory case study of water pollution along the Citarum River, Indonesia

    Open Access•Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Fitria Aurora Feliciani et al.•ARTICLE•Local Environment•2026

Sociology (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works) · Urban planning (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works)

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