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Housing and Urban Regeneration of Deprived Neighborhoods in Santiago
This publication is a joint project between the Department of Management in the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, and the School of Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, which seeks to reflect on alternative housing production models that have arisen in response to social, economic and political changes in both contexts. Although the experiences have followed different paths and therefore, have had different results, they share a common goal: the search for alternative housing models that are collaborative, affordable and have the potential for regenerating urban neighborhoods. The first milestone of the cooperation between both institutions was an aca...
Contested Legacies
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, this book proposes to reassess the conditions and legacy of this large and ubiquitous housing stock. By foregrounding the mismatch between constructed cultural, social and ideological narratives and the everyday realities of residents, the contributors rediscover some of the tropes of modern housing, such as the impact of technological innovations or the often overlooked character of open spaces, an...
Global Gentrifications
This comprehensive book uses a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond to highlight the intensifying global struggle over urban space and underline gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.
Identity Investments
After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline in poverty along with a quickly growing economy. As a result, Chile's middle class expanded dramatically, echoing trends seen across the Global South as neoliberalism took firm hold in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Identity Investments examines the politics and consumption practices of this vast and varied fraction of the Chilean population, seeking to better understand their value systems and the histories that informed them. Using participant observation, interviews, and photographs, Joel Stillerman develops a unique typology of the middle class, made up of activists, moderate Catholics, pragmati...
Contested Markets, Contested Cities
Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mostly independent, non-corporate and often informal work spaces serving millions of the most vulnerable communities across the world. At the same time, markets have become fashionable destinations for ‘foodies’ and middle class consumers and tourists looking for authenticity and heritage. The confluence of these potentially contradictory actors and their interests turns markets into "contested spaces". Contested Markets, Contested Cities provides an analytical and multidisciplinary framework within which specific markets from Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Sofia, Madrid, London and Leeds (UK) are explored. This pioneering and highly original work examines public markets from a perspective of contestation looking at their role in processes of gentrification but also in political mobilisation and urban justice.
Urban Commons
Urban space is a commons: simultaneously a sphere of human cooperation and negotiation and its product. Understanding urban space as a commons means that the much sought-after productivity of the city precedes rather than results from strategies of the state and capital. This approach challenges assumptions of urbanization as capital-driven, an idea which resonates with a range of recent urban social movements, from the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement to the “Right to the City” alliance. However commons exist in a tense relationship with state and market, both of which continually seek to exploit and control them. Initiatives to create “commons” are welcomed and even facilitated ...
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Hilos tensados
El 18 de octubre 2019 se detonó en Chile un conjunto de eventos que en pocas semanas cuestionaron, en profundidad, muchas de nuestras certidumbres colectivas. El país se ha visto enfrentado a su más grave crisis social desde hace décadas. Un conjunto heterogéneo de disputas y demandas han desestabilizado el lugar de la economía de mercado; han expresado nuevos anhelos de integración y protección social; han constituido a la violencia, en sus muy distintas manifestaciones en una realidad de inevitable análisis; han interrogado las fronteras de lo público, lo estatal y lo privado; han cuestionado formas tradicionales de ejercicio de autoridad y de regulación social; han revelado la fuerza del empuje hacia la re-definición de las relaciones entre los individuos, y entre estos y las instituciones.
Ordenación del territorio, ciudad y derecho urbano : competencias, instrumentos de planificación y desafíos
El grupo de investigación deDerecho Administrativo de la Universidad Externado de Colombia entrega alpúblico una obra que le permite al lector comprender las diferentescompetencias e instrumentos de ordenación del territorio colombiano y, en estalabor, establecer no solo cuáles son las relaciones entre los diferentesniveles territoriales sino además identificar las contradicciones que sederivan de la superposición de decisiones que confluyen sobre el suelo comoobjeto de intervención de las esferas nacionales, departamentales, regionales,locales y sectoriales. En este galimatías jurídico seenmarca la planificación de la ciudad, la cual, en el ejercicio de la autonomíareconocida...
El nuevo gobierno de los individuos
Diagnostica los tres grandes cambios en el gobierno de los individuos: una revolución de los controles a nivel del Estado; una metamorfosis en las creencias colectivas que trastocan la legitimidad y una convulsión generalizada de las jerarquías.
