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Future Housing
Global population growth, exposure to climate-driven risks, continuous ongoing economic crises, persistent levels of poverty, migration phenomena, exponential increase in the use of digital technology and consequent digital divide, and the urgent demand for more equal spaces are amongst the major drivers of change within the housing sector. This book seeks to envision some of the future housing scenarios, outlining a series of possible transformations that will affect the global housing models in the coming years. The essays in the book are not intended to provide predictions on housing, but rather to try to grasp how social attitudes, economic values, and technologies employed are changing. The issues addressed range from exploring the potential of green and digital strategies both in regenerating existing building heritage and in new construction within developing countries to addressing the humanitarian challenges of climate change and mitigating social inequality.
Gentrification around the World, Volume II
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and displacement in the abstract and “on-the-ground.” Chapters examine, among other topics, social class, development, im/migration, housing, race relations, political economy, power dynamics, inequality, displacement, social segregation, homogenization, urban policy, planning, and design. The qualitative methodologies used in each chapter—which emphasize ethnographic, participatory, and visual approaches that interrogate the representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media—are themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying gentrification and its consequences worldwide.
Movilidades y Cambio Urbano
¿Cuáles son los principales cambios en curso en las configuraciones socio-espaciales de las metrópolis latinoamericanas? ¿Cómo evolucionan el poblamiento, las divisiones sociales de los espacios urbanos y las desigualdades territoriales? ¿Qué prácticas de movilidad espacial o políticas públicas contribuyen a acelerar estos cambios? O a resistir contra ellos? Y más precisamente: ¿Cómo se insertan los migrantes en la ciudad? ¿Cómo los habitantes acceden a la vivienda y por qué cambian, o no, de vivienda? ¿Cómo se caracterizan actualmente las desigualdades de movilidad cotidiana? ¿Qué cambios están ocurriendo en los centros? ¿Cómo se alojan las clases populares en las per...
Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment
The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns. Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social iss...
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures t...
Nuevos habitantes del centro de Santiago
Desde el retorno a la democracia Santiago se convirtió en uno de los escenarios relevantes del cambio social como efecto de las políticas de apertura económica de una ciudad global a escala local, pasando de ser el “Santiago antiguo” antes del terremoto de 1985 a la zona de Renovación Urbana de principios del siglo XXI. En ese contexto surgen nuevas formas de habitar la ciudad que rompen los antiguos paradigmas de condición social de las antiguas generaciones de santiaguinos. Los nuevos productos habitacionales transforman la antigua imagen del “sueño de la casa propia” a la del departamento como un espacio funcional de las distintas etapas que la vida presenta en las personas....
Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration
Drawing on the concept of the ‘politics of compassion’, this Handbook interrogates the political, geopolitical, social and anthropological processes which produce and govern borders and give rise to contemporary border violence.
Cambios sociespaciales en las ciudades latinoamericanas: ¿procesos de gentrificación?
En las últimas décadas, las ciudades latinoamericanas han conocido importantes transformaciones fisícas y ambientales, asi como poblacionales, sociales, culturales, económicas y políticas. Estos cambios que afectaron centros, pericentros y periferias, han sido a veces analizados a la luz del concepto de "gentrificación", en referencia a la gentrification observada desde 1960 en contextos anqlosajones. hoy día el uso de este término se ha vuelto muy común. Sin embargo, la misma realidad latinoamericana lleva a revísitar estas lecturas e impone nuevos retos tanto para la investigación urbana como para las políticas públicas de repoblamiento o revitalización de las áreas centrale...
Wasser | Macht | Raum
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt am Beispiel der Stadt Antofagasta im Norden Chiles, wie entlang hydro-sozialer Versorgungsinfrastrukturen urbane Lebensräume und Identitäten (re-)konfiguriert werden. Auf Basis von sieben Monaten sozialgeographischer Feldforschung beleuchtet das Buch die verschiedenen Dimensionen der täglichen Wasserbeschaffung und -nutzung in Antofagastas Campamentos (“informelle Siedlungen”). Konzeptionelle Zugänge aus der Urbanen Politischen Ökologie, der foucaultschen Gouvernementalitätsanalyse und der Citizenship-Forschung werden zu einem hydro-sozialen Analyseraster kombiniert. Mit diesem Raster wird der Lauf des Wassers entlang machtgeladener hydraulischer Infrastr...
Emergent Spaces
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change.
