Borja Ruiz-Apilánez is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Castilla-La Mancha School of Architecture in Toledo, Spain. He holds a Master’s in civil engineering (Universidad de Cantabria, 2002), a Master’s in architecture and Planning (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2008) and a PhD in Territory, Infrastructures & Environment (UCLM, 2013). He has an educational and professional background in Architecture and Civil Engineering, with internationally awarded and published architectural practice in Estudio Cano Lasso and Nieto Sobejano. Borja investigates the relationship between the physical urban environment and human activities, with a focus on public life and public space at different scales and from different perspectives. He has extensively published in top academic journals and his recently edited book A pie o en bici. Perspectivas y experiencias en torno a la movilidad activa is open access. He has lectured in European and North American universities and has been visiting scholar at the Centre for Public Space Research (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen), The Bartlett (University College London), and the Department of City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley). He is a registered Civil Engineer and Architect, and Secretary General and founding member of the Hispanic network of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF-H).