Luis Alfaro is an architect and landscape architect who graduated from Isthmus in Panama City in 2008, with a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB) in Barcelona (2014). He has been recognized by the Congress for the New Urbanism for the landscape planning of an urban project by the firm Moule & Polyzoides (Pasadena, California). He designed and built the landscaping for Altos del María and is the designer of the phase-one tree-planting plan for Porta Norte. You can see more of his firm’s work at www.laap.space.

In this third episode, we discuss the phase one tree-planting plan for Porta Norte and pedestrian-focused urbanism. This episode was recorded on-site with 100 architecture students from the University of Panama, Santa María la Antigua University, the Technological University of Panama, the Inter-American University of Panama, and the School of Architecture and Design of Latin America and the Caribbean.