Samuel Tabory is a PhD candidate in urban and regional planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He studies the governance and negotiation of urban-regional systems transitions, paying attention to questions of scale, infrastructure, and boundary. He is interested in how transitions and alternative governance logics interact with evolving spatial and temporal understandings of crisis under conditions of global environmental change. His work considers how conventions of both growth and polity are implicated by such ideas of crisis. Trained as a planner and a Latin Americanist, comparative and global perspectives inform his work. His interests are interdisciplinary and multi-scalar across planning, law, and territorial transformation. Sam’s dissertation project explores the daily cross-scale (local to global) politicking and negotiation that goes into the creative institutional work of trying to prospectively affect the territorial trajectories of agro-industrial regional landscape transformation in central Mexico under pressures of localized climate change.