Rodrigo Booth

Biography

Rodrigo Booth is an assistant professor and researcher in the architecture department of the University of Chile. Historian and Doctor in Architecture and Urban Studies. His areas of interest include the history of architecture, city and territory, history of technology, history of transport and mobility, history of photography and social studies of tourism. He is currently Researcher in charge of the Fondecyt Initiation research project 11110844 in which he tackles the conflictive relationship between transport and environmental pollution in Santiago in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time he is a Researcher in charge of the U-Inicia 11/13 project of the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Development of the University of Chile in which he studies the cultural construction of the landscape of southern Chile between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Research Interest

Charge of the Fondecyt Initiation, the conflictive relationship between transport and environmental pollution