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CED's Teresa Caldeira named a Guggenheim Fellow

April 12, 2012

City and regional-planning professor Teresa Caldeira is among 181 new Guggenheim Fellows, in the U.S. and Canada, announced April 12. An anthropologist by training, her Guggenheim project analyzes public practices — including graffiti, pixação (tagging), rap and skateboarding — that are transforming the city of São Paulo, Brazil and articulate its profound social inequalities. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has the story.