Carlos H. Betancourth
Carlos H. Betancourth (US/CO) is an architect, researcher and urban designer.
DEAF96 Symposium: Carlos H. Betancourth; photo: Jan Sprij
Carlos Hernan Betancourth (New York) is a Researcher and
a PhD Candidate in City Planning at Columbia University,
New York. He has worked as an architect, urban designer
and as a planner in Colombia, The Netherlands, Spain and
in the US. Betancourth is currently doing research that
examines how tele-communications and fast transport systems
are being used to recombine the urban world in ways which
bring the physical and social aspects of cities into continuous
and constant interaction with the electronic worlds of tele-communications.
This research examines the implications of the virtualization
and globalization of economic activity for questions of
civic culture, economic, physical space, models of urbanization
and architecture, and for sustainability in urban environments.
Nederlands
Carlos H. Betancourth is een onderzoeker in stadsplanning aan de Columbia University, New York. Hij heeft als architect en urban designer gewerkt in Colombia, Nederland, Spanje en Amerika. Publicaties van hem zijn o.a.: The Dutch Model of Urbanization for The Randstad (VINEX), Amsterdam, 1993; Virtuality and Civic Problems in Multicultural Global Cities (1996), German in: Iglhaut ea.: Ansichten von Telepolis, Frankfurt/M.,1996.
