Clara Irazábal

About Clara Irazábal

I am the Urban Studies and Planning Program Director at the University of Maryland, College Park. I worked at the University of Missouri, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. My research focuses on culture, politics, and placemaking to enhance socio-spatial justice in Latin American and US Latinx communities.

Areas of Expertise

Anti-racism Planning, Community Development, Housing, International Development Planning

Selected Publications

Irazábal, C. (2024). “Latin American Perspectives on the Urban Century: Planning Challenges and Opportunities.” Latin, Metawala, P., K. Golda-Pongratz, and C. Irazábal. “Revisiting Engels’ ‘Housing Question’: Work and Housing Conditions of Immigrant Platform-Delivery Riders in Barcelona.” Human Geography, 2021, Vol. 14(2) 243–257. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/19427786211010131, Garay-Huaman, A. and C. Irazábal. \Latinos in Kansas City: The Political Economy of Placemaking.\ Journal of Planning Literature, 22 (3): 207–28, 2020. [Winner of the LASA Latino Studies Section Outstanding Article Award 2021] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0885412220969910, González-Pérez, J., C. Irazábal, and R. Lois-González (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Cities, Urban Processes and Policies. New York, Routledge, 2023.

Recent Courses Taught

URSP 708: Community Planning Studio, URSP 709: Field Instruction