David Villanueva Acuña

Economist from the University of Tolima, with a master’s degree in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. Co-founder and coordinator of the urban planning and right to the city area of the Center for Thinking and Action for the Transition CPAT. Researcher in matters related to urban planning, territorial planning and regional and urban planning among others. In the CPAT has explored the relationships that are woven between the policies of production and renovation of urban spaces and the dynamics of spatial segregation in Latin American cities, an issue in which the right to the city is linked to the reform in drug policy, post that the war against drugs has been used as an instrument for intervention in urban spaces in cities for the purpose of urban renewal.