Urban anthropologist
PhD researcher & teaching assistant, Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research | Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Line Algoed is an urban anthropologist specializing in urban planning, housing and community development. She is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, studying collective forms of land tenure in the Caribbean. She works with the Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña in Puerto Rico on the exchange of knowledge on land rights with communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also a director at the Centre for Community Land Trust Innovation and co-editor of the book On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust. Prior to this, Ms. Algoed was a program manager at World Habitat where she evaluated the Caño CLT for the World Habitat Awards, which they won in 2016. She holds a Master of Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and a Master of Sociology from the London School of Economics.
Courses
Equitable Communities: Special Session
This session explores approaches to building and financing more equitable communities by exploring different real-life examples. Panelists present the tools and frameworks for community engagement, progressive policies and new approaches to financing equitable community growth and maintaining community ownership e.g. Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and green banks. CLTs will explored from a policy and experiential point of view.
Course expires 03/07/2025