El derecho a la ciudad
01 Jan 2013-Iss: 14, pp 39-39
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TL;DR: In this article, a rhetorical analysis of newspaper reports and interview accounts about the development of a contested public space in Barcelona, known locally both as Figuera's Well and the Hole of Shame, is presented, whose implications are discussed both within the context of local power struggles and within the wider ideological struggles over the nature of public spaces in Barcelona.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a marco teorico holistico is proposed to comprender the complejas variables that vertebran the procesos de desconcentracion urbana, and a traves of un estudio de caso centrado in el sistema territorial espanol, cuestionar las visiones historicistas and unidireccionales del cambio urbano.
Abstract: El estudio de las relaciones centrifugas entre la ciudad y sus espacios circundantes ha ocupado tradicionalmente un lugar muy destacado en los escenarios teoricos y empiricos de la sociologia urbana y rural Tales relaciones, o procesos de desconcentracion urbana, estan generando una ingente cantidad de preguntas dificiles de responder: ?que tipos de periferias existen en los tramados metropolitanos actuales?, ?como han evolucionado en los ultimos anos los suburbios de las megaciudades?, ?que elementos caracterizan a los habitats exurbanos transcontinentales?, ?hasta que punto los fenomenos contraurbanos han alterado las interacciones campo,ciudad durante las pasadas decadas?
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TL;DR: In this paper, the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, and Brighton) by exam results is studied.
Abstract: This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by exam ...
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22 May 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a strong engagement with the critical literature in urban studies is required while understanding the complex and evolving historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro's favelas and Johannesburg's townships through qualitative methodologies, and without neglecting a historical-comparative orientation.
Abstract: My general objective with this thesis is to contribute to the search for connections between postcolonial and critical understandings in urban studies. Building on my analysis of the urban trajectories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I argue for bringing the grammars of critical thought and postcolonial thought in urban studies closer together. The historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships show that critical theorization of urbanization must be somewhat pluralized and decentered. I also argue that such an agenda of research should be developed in the form of a critique of capitalist (urban) development. Therefore, in this study, I aim at contributing to the critical understanding of (urban) development by emphasizing how processes of (de)commodification and socio-spatial segregation have been taking place in these two contexts of urban marginalization. Concerning the temporal scope of the study, I put the emphasis on recent dynamics of social change in Brazil and South Africa that might have had consequences for the historically marginalized urban spaces of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. Consequently, despite my attentiveness to the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I place the weight of the analysis on the period that starts somewhere between the 1990s and 2000s and goes on into the 2010s. As a comparative, historically attentive, multi-sited study, my research demanded a resourceful organization and combination of several methodological elements. In order to organize a comparative study of the urban trajectories of favelas and townships, I rely on a methodology that combines both secondary and primary sources. I draw upon the pertinent literatures about each of the two cities in order to delve into the histories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. On the other hand, this study depends largely on qualitative research methods, particularly on qualitative data I gathered during my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. The data coming from my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and in Johannesburg in 2013 and in 2015 comprises in-depth interviews, field notes, and photos from the areas I lived in and visited. While approaching Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships through qualitative methodologies, and without neglecting a historical-comparative orientation, I show that we have a more complex picture that hardly fits into the general representation of them as static, indistinguishable, dreadful worlds. I also maintain that critique – which in our case might be also understood as a critique of (urban) development – must not be sidestepped. I argue that a strong engagement with the critical literature in urban studies is required while understanding the complex and evolving historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. We must take the unevenness of capitalist development and other debates around key issues like the production of space, accumulation by dispossession, and (de)commodification into account if we are to understand our urbanizing present.
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TL;DR: In this article, a rhetorical analysis of newspaper reports and interview accounts about the development of a contested public space in Barcelona, known locally both as Figuera's Well and the Hole of Shame, is presented, whose implications are discussed both within the context of local power struggles and within the wider ideological struggles over the nature of public spaces in Barcelona.
72 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the impact of tourism and transnational gentrification on socio-spatial justice in cities should be taken into account, and they suggest that travel flows across the planet have drawn attention to socio spatial justice.
Abstract: Increasing international travel flows across the planet have drawn attention to socio-spatial justice concerning the impact of tourism and transnational gentrification in cities. We suggest that th...
62 citations
01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, a marco teorico holistico is proposed to comprender the complejas variables that vertebran the procesos de desconcentracion urbana, and a traves of un estudio de caso centrado in el sistema territorial espanol, cuestionar las visiones historicistas and unidireccionales del cambio urbano.
Abstract: El estudio de las relaciones centrifugas entre la ciudad y sus espacios circundantes ha ocupado tradicionalmente un lugar muy destacado en los escenarios teoricos y empiricos de la sociologia urbana y rural Tales relaciones, o procesos de desconcentracion urbana, estan generando una ingente cantidad de preguntas dificiles de responder: ?que tipos de periferias existen en los tramados metropolitanos actuales?, ?como han evolucionado en los ultimos anos los suburbios de las megaciudades?, ?que elementos caracterizan a los habitats exurbanos transcontinentales?, ?hasta que punto los fenomenos contraurbanos han alterado las interacciones campo,ciudad durante las pasadas decadas?
Este libro trata de proponer, mediante un analisis historico,comparativo que comienza en la Antiguedad, un marco teorico holistico que nos ayude a comprender las complejas variables estructurales y superestructurales que vertebran los procesos de desconcentracion urbana Tambien pretende, a traves de un estudio de caso centrado en el sistema territorial espanol, cuestionar las visiones historicistas y unidireccionales del cambio urbano
52 citations
Dissertation•
22 May 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a strong engagement with the critical literature in urban studies is required while understanding the complex and evolving historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro's favelas and Johannesburg's townships through qualitative methodologies, and without neglecting a historical-comparative orientation.
Abstract: My general objective with this thesis is to contribute to the search for connections between postcolonial and critical understandings in urban studies. Building on my analysis of the urban trajectories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I argue for bringing the grammars of critical thought and postcolonial thought in urban studies closer together. The historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships show that critical theorization of urbanization must be somewhat pluralized and decentered. I also argue that such an agenda of research should be developed in the form of a critique of capitalist (urban) development. Therefore, in this study, I aim at contributing to the critical understanding of (urban) development by emphasizing how processes of (de)commodification and socio-spatial segregation have been taking place in these two contexts of urban marginalization. Concerning the temporal scope of the study, I put the emphasis on recent dynamics of social change in Brazil and South Africa that might have had consequences for the historically marginalized urban spaces of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. Consequently, despite my attentiveness to the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships, I place the weight of the analysis on the period that starts somewhere between the 1990s and 2000s and goes on into the 2010s. As a comparative, historically attentive, multi-sited study, my research demanded a resourceful organization and combination of several methodological elements. In order to organize a comparative study of the urban trajectories of favelas and townships, I rely on a methodology that combines both secondary and primary sources. I draw upon the pertinent literatures about each of the two cities in order to delve into the histories of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. On the other hand, this study depends largely on qualitative research methods, particularly on qualitative data I gathered during my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. The data coming from my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and in Johannesburg in 2013 and in 2015 comprises in-depth interviews, field notes, and photos from the areas I lived in and visited. While approaching Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships through qualitative methodologies, and without neglecting a historical-comparative orientation, I show that we have a more complex picture that hardly fits into the general representation of them as static, indistinguishable, dreadful worlds. I also maintain that critique – which in our case might be also understood as a critique of (urban) development – must not be sidestepped. I argue that a strong engagement with the critical literature in urban studies is required while understanding the complex and evolving historical-geographies of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships. We must take the unevenness of capitalist development and other debates around key issues like the production of space, accumulation by dispossession, and (de)commodification into account if we are to understand our urbanizing present.
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Dissertation•
12 Sep 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the integral regeneration of public space from the perspective of ecological urban planning, participatory urbanism and tactical urbanism, with the aim of creating sustainable models of urban management.
Abstract: espanolAnte el escenario de crisis global en el que nos encontramos, nuestros patrones urbanoterritoriales requeriran profundas transformaciones hacia una urgente transicion socioecologica. El reto que deberemos afrontar sera considerar como oportunidad el punto de inflexion que supone la propia crisis para que nos lleve a tiempo a modelos radicalmente diferentes, sobre todo de la vida urbana En ese sentido, consideramos que el urbanismo jugara un papel clave, que solo sera posible con un replanteamiento de instrumentos y criterios para transformaciones urbanas hacia la sostenibilidad social, economica y ambiental La rehabilitacion y regeneracion integral urbana, con criterios ecologicos, apunta a ser uno de los ejes centrales de la sostenibilidad a corto plazo, donde la escala barrial sera un ambito de oportunidad para desarrollar politicas locales y construir modelos de gestion urbana sostenibles. Otro eje sera abordar un cambio metodologico, que tenga en consideracion la experiencia de las personas en las decisiones urbanas, y la creacion de mecanismos para la gestion concertada y participativa de la ciudad, donde el espacio publico sera determinante. El desarrollo de la Tesis plantea como corresponderia renovar el urbanismo desde una perspectiva de accion transformadora; y como contribuir a la construccion conceptual y metodologica para la transicion hacia un modelo urbanistico alternativo. En particular, el estudio se centra en la regeneracion integral del espacio publico desde la perspectiva del urbanismo ecologico, del urbanismo participativo y del urbanismo emergente. Parte de la hipotesis de que es preciso encontrar vias de encuentro entre las iniciativas por la sostenibilidad desde la base como el Movimiento de Transicion y el Decrecimiento, y las iniciativas institucionales que, de arriba a abajo, plantean un nuevo urbanismo sostenible, participativo e integrado. EnglishIn the scenario of global crisis we are facing, the urban and territorial patterns will require from deep changes towards an urgent socioecological transition. Our challenge is to identify as an opportunity the turning point this crisis represents, and to seize it to implement radically different models without further delay, with focus on urban life. Accordingly, we strongly believe that urbanism will play a key role, and this will only be possible by rethinking urban transformation instruments and approaches from a perspective of environmental, economical and social sustainability. Rehabilitation and integral urban regeneration, including environmental approaches, aims to be a pillar for sustainability in short term; neighbourhood scale will emerge as an opportunity space to develop local policies and to build sustainable models of urban management. It’s equally fundamental to address a methodological change, which considers both the experience of citizens in urban decision-making and the creation of mechanisms for a concerted and participatory city management, where public space will be a determining factor. The thesis posits how urbanism should be renewed from a perspective of transformative action; and how to contribute to a conceptual a methodological construction for the transition towards an alternative urbanistic model. In particular, the focus of the study is on the integral regeneration of public space from the perspective of ecological urban planning, participatory urbanism and tactical urbanism. The starting hypothesis is that it’s needed to connect social initiatives for sustainability, with a bottom-up approach, as the transition and degrowth movements, and the institutional initiatives, with a top-down approach, which raise the foundations of a new sustainable and collaborative planning with an integrated approach to the urban development.
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