Download or read book Urbanismo y desigualdad social written by David Harvey and published by Siglo XXI de España Editores. This book was released on 1977-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El rasgo común a los seis ensayos que componen este volumen es el deseo de formular una teoría del urbanismo capaz de dar cuenta de la forma en que la ciudad (la planificación urbana) refleja la desigualdad social, contribuye a reproducirla o incluso la refuerza y profundiza. Así, son cuatro los tipos de problemas a los que se enfrenta el autor: problemas teóricos, de categorización del hecho urbano, problemas de conceptualización del espacio, problemas de definición de la desigualdad social (¿existe una justicia social territorial?) y, por último, problemas concernientes a la naturaleza de la teoría y práctica del urbanismo. Ahora bien, si bien los seis ensayos reflejan una misma preocupación teórica, su problemática se va transformando, mostrando una trayectoria que arranca de planteamientos “liberales” para llegar a planteamientos socialistas. Así, desde el primer ensayo hasta el último asistimos a la transformación del horizonte teórico del autor, al que la necesidad de explicar las relaciones entre desigualdad social y estructura urbana obliga a recurrir a los conceptos del análisis materialista marxiano: valor de uso y valor de cambio, excedente y plusvalor. Hasta concluir: “De la historia hemos heredado un urbanismo basado en la explotación... Queda para la teoría revolucionaria explorar el camino que va de un urbanismo basado en la explotación a un urbanismo apropiado para la especie humana. Y queda para la práctica revolucionaria llevar a cabo tal transformación.” David Harvey, profesor de geografía e ingeniería ambiental en la Johns Hopkins University, en Baltimore, Estados Unidos, es también autor de un libro sobre problemas metodológicos de la geografía (Explanation in Geography).

Download or read book La ciudad de los ricos y la ciudad de los pobres written by Bernardo Secchi and published by LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernardo Secchi (1934-2014) es uno de los urbanistas más influyentes de las cinco últimas décadas. A su fecunda práctica profesional ha unido una continua y destacada labor de divulgación a través de múltiples libros y artículos. De este modo, ha contribuido a un entendimiento, explicación y crítica de la ciudad y el territorio, que resultan imprescindibles para cualquier proyecto de futuro. La aportación de Secchi se une a la de otros destacados economistas, sociólogos y políticos que vienen alertando sobre las graves consecuencias que implica para la democracia la continua y sostenida profundización de la desigualdad. La ciudad de los ricos y la ciudad de los pobres centra la atención en la desigualdad social como la “nueva cuestión urbana” que permite reformular y actualizar, más allá del urbanismo, el contenido del “derecho a la ciudad”, en tanto respuesta a lo que, con acierto, Secchi denomina “injusticia espacial”. Tanto por su extensión como por su provocador contenido, este nuevo y último libro de Bernardo Secchi constituye un manifiesto movilizador de la conciencia ciudadana y, muy especialmente, de la de políticos y profesionales con mayores responsabilidades en la construcción y gestión de nuestras ciudades. Prólogo de Eduardo Mangada, introducción de Jesús Gago.

Download or read book Rese a written by La Bisagra and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems written by Max Stephenson and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship and high-level diplomatic reports alike, including that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021, have highlighted the negative material and bodily inequities of our globalized industrial food system, one that is fuelled by a hegemonic politics of food access and availability. The effects of industrialized food systems on public health, human rights, food sovereignty, ecological sustainability for land and water, as well as for climate change are increasingly obvious. These ongoing challenges, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have exacerbated existing social, economic, and political inequalities and vulnerabilities and placed them in the spotlight. The crisis in the Ukraine has also underscored how connected global industrialized food systems are to nation state geopolitical interests, international alliances, trade relations, and conflicts. The current industrialized resource-intensive food system has persisted because of a complex set of power relations, despite its continuing and deepening social, ecological, and cultural costs.

Download or read book Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability written by Javier Martinez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts. The volume includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars from various disciplines and geographical contexts (Global South and North). The varying cultural and socio-spatial contexts of the authors in the selected cases contribute to first-hand knowledge on the realities of sustainability issues affecting the quality of life. The authors apply a wide diversity of methods and tools, which facilitates a unique understanding of the interlinkages between quality of life and sustainability. The chapters are grouped in three main sections: concepts and foundations; tools, techniques, and applications; and innovations. The authors provide their own view and theoretical approximation of the dimensions of sustainability, in particular on how these dimensions play out in relation to quality of life. The combination of sustainability and quality of life concepts and perspectives is particularly important in unravelling the multi-faceted nature of human, urban, rural/spatial development.

Download or read book Teor a de las condiciones y los servicios generales de la producci n written by Gustavo Garza and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La economía política de la urbanización asume que las condiciones generales de la producción constituyen el determinante histórico fundamental de la concentración espacial del capital. En este libro, primero de una trilogía sobre el tema, se extiende esa categoría proponiendo la existencia del binomio condiciones y servicios generales de la producción, como un concepto más adecuado para comprender las aglomeraciones metropolitanas contemporáneas. En la primera parte de la obra se analiza la evolución de dicha categoría dentro de la teoría del capital, su desarrollo histórico mundial como andamiaje infraestructural, así como su definición, tipología y características. En la segunda parte se inicia un estudio empírico sobre el vínculo de la infraestructura con la competitividad urbana y, principalmente, la cuestión de su financiamiento en el caso de la Ciudad de México.

Download or read book Housing and Belonging in Latin America written by Christien Klaufus and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Lima, residents built their own homes and formed community organizations, while in Rio de Janeiro inhabitants of the favelas needed to be “pacified” in anticipation of international sporting events. Aspirations to “get ahead in life” abound in the region, but so do multiple limitations to realizing the dream of upward mobility. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.

Download or read book La ciudad y los derechos humanos written by Rosario del Caz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se impone recuperar una visión más global del urbanismo sostenible; recuperar el urbanismo social, ahora que la desigualdad de nuestro mundo global se agudiza en las ciudades. Y el horizonte hacia el que dirigir la renovación del pensamiento y la acción urbanística no puede ser otro que el de los derechos humanos; el de las garantías de dignidad y felicidad con ellos relacionadas. Pues no puede existir armonía ciudadana, mejoras medioambientales ni una adecuada adaptación a las nuevas tecnologías sin ese mayor respeto (menos complaciente) a los derechos humanos de todas las personas: de las que están, de las que llegan a la ciudad.

Download or read book Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America written by Graciela Tonon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the book presents the methodology for the construction of new indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical perspective, and examines quality of life of different populations. The book focuses on the social, economic, political, geographical and demographic dimensions. It covers a wide range of topics, including the ways to measure social, political and spatial inequalities, the changes in urban quality of life, the construction of a synthetic indicator for the assessment of habitability, the measuring of spatial segregation in midsize and smaller cities by using thematic cartography and synthesis maps, and the concept of habitability. It includes research conducted on the quality of life of different population groups: working boys and girls, high-school students, and older people.

Download or read book The Urban Crisis written by Francisco Sabatini and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services written by Nedelea, Alexandru-Mircea and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism marketing is a vital tool in promoting the overall health of the global economy by not only bringing necessary revenue to a particular region, but also providing an opportunity for tourists to explore another culture, building tolerance and overall exposure to different ways of life. Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services provides interdisciplinary perspectives in the areas of global tourism and hospitality. Highlighting cultural boundaries of strategic knowledge management through the use of case studies and theoretical research, as well as the opportunities and challenges of tourism marketing, this publication is an essential reference source for academicians, research scholars, marketing professionals, graduate-level students, and industry professionals interested in international travel and the vacation industry.

Download or read book Transnational networks of Ecuadorian immigrants written by María Luisa Setién and published by Universidad de Deusto. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of transnational networks at different points in the migratory process and in settling in new locations in the destination country is the central focus of this publication. Ecuadorian immigrants who have come to Spain, and to the Basque Country specifically, are the main protagonists of this research project, which has been carried out within the framework of the International Migrations Research Team of the University of Deusto.

Download or read book Research Tracks in Urbanism Dynamics Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories written by Alessia Allegri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.

Download or read book New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia written by Pablo Baisotti and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered “secondary” in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress made by these metropolises, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing Latin American and Asian cities. This book analyzes the complex relationships within cities through an interdisciplinary approach, complementing other research and challenging orthodox views on global cities. At the same time, the book provides new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the progress of “Third World” cities and the way of understanding “globality” in the 21st century by confronting the traditional views with which global cities were appreciated since the 1980s. Pablo Baisotti brings together researchers from various fields who provide new interpretative keys to certain cities in Latin America and Asia.

Download or read book From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity written by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this book analyze resilience and sustainability in seven different complex adaptive systems (human beings, megaprojects, higher education, food systems, climate change, healthcare settings and cities) by highlighting transitions from complexity to transdisciplinarity as a strategy for knowledge integration. The book provides insights about the nature of complex adaptive systems based on the cases studied, in particular the issue of second order cybernetics (associated to the mind-matter problematic), the role of entropy in complex systems and the importance of the notion of reflexivity in the current cognitive-reflexive stage in world capitalism. In this way, the book aims at contributing to current debates and objections about the validity of traditional ontological and epistemological positions in the face of radical and rapid transformations worldwide affecting some aspects of capitalist development. The Conclusions explore how complex sustainability needs to integrate several elements beyond the conventional view expressed in the standard, anthropocentric definition of sustainability. The contributions in this book are important for anyone interested in meaningfully designing research on resilience and sustainability that uses complexity and transdisciplinary perspectives and frameworks. ENDORSEMENTS: "This volume, edited and co-authored by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría, is an important book for our times. It illustrates the necessity of utilizing transdisciplinary approaches to address the unremitting onslaught of environmental disasters in the post-COVID era. It serves as an essential primer for understanding the critical intersections between complexity, sustainability, and resilience. Readers will undoubtedly become more reflective about their own inquiries as they learn how scholars from different fields integrate knowledge to offer innovative and meticulously researched insights regarding many of today’s most pressing global issues." — Tanya Augsburg, San Francisco State University "From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity, edited and co-authored by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría, takes resilience and sustainability to center stage, and brings to the fore the limits of individual disciplines in understanding the intricacies of nature, ecology and capitalism as it applies to seven complex systems. The book advocates for an interconnected, creative and holistic path while calling for a transition from complexity to transdisciplinarity as a means of integrating knowledge. This challenges conventional ontological and epistemological perspectives in the face of our rapidly changing societies. This book offers a novel analytical perspective and is a valuable resource for researchers and scholars interested in addressing global challenges through complex resilience, sustainability and transdisciplinarity." — Florent Pasquier, Sorbonne Université and Centre International de Recherches et Études Transdisciplinaires (CIRET), Paris, France "Today’s grand and global challenges are marked by irreducible complexities. They cannot be adequately addressed by reductionist approaches and are likely to not have a single, undisputable solution. The contributions to this volume, carefully edited by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría, acknowledge these impurities and argue for approaches that transgress on-sided or narrow-minded perspectives. Thus, they offer topical insights into different domains and concepts that address issues of sustainability and resilience without reiterating traditional dichotomies between nature and culture or society and technology. Hence, the volume puts transdisciplinary in the centre of research practices that are both experimental and democratic. From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity is insightful and innovative, and a book you cannot ignore." — Cornelius Schubert, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany "This book shows how the Anthropocene world is an unpredictable system of complex systems. To comprehend and transform this world towards sustainability, we need new ontological and epistemic lenses offered by transdisciplinary inquiry. Policy makers, scientists and corporate leaders will benefit from reading this important collection of essays on the fundamental topics of resilience, sustainability, cybernetics, reflexivity, nature, and entropy." — Paul Shrivastava, Penn State University and The Club of Rome, United States of America

Download or read book Activist Feminist Geographies written by Kate Boyer and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring what it means to enact feminist geography, this book brings together contemporary, cutting-edge cases of social justice activism and collaborative research with activists. From Black feminist organizing in the American South to the stories of feminist geography collectives in Latin America, the editors present contemporary case studies from the global north and south. The chapters showcase the strength and vibrancy of activist-engaged scholarship taking place in the field and serve as a call to action, exploring how this work advances real-world efforts to fight injustice and re-make the world as a fairer, more equitable, and more accepting place.

Download or read book Efecto barrio written by Ítziar Aguado Moralejo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El incremento de las desigualdades sociales está comportando un agravamiento de la segregación residencial. Así, los diversos grupos sociales tienden a separarse cada vez más en el espacio urbano en función de su capacidad de escoger lugar de residencia. La cuestión es relevante porque la segregación no solo refleja las diferencias sociales, sino que contribuye de manera decisiva a mantenerlas y a incrementarlas. De este modo, la segregación incide en la desigualdad de la ciudadanía en el ámbito de la vivienda, la educación, las oportunidades laborales, el acceso a la energía y también de la salud, como ha evidenciado la crisis provocada por la pandemia COVID19. Efecto Barrio propone un recorrido por la realidad de la segregación residencial y sus efectos en las grandes ciudades ibéricas. La investigación ofrece claves para la comprensión de las consecuencias sociales de este fenómeno, así como su relación con la distribución territorial de los recursos públicos, las dotaciones de equipamientos y las actitudes políticas de la ciudadanía. Junto al análisis de la incidencia de la segregación sobre las condiciones de vida de la población, el volumen presenta una panorámica de esta problemática en las principales áreas metropolitanas de la Península Ibérica: Madrid, Lisboa, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia y Bilbao. El libro, fruto de una investigación de tres años, ha sido coordinado por Oriol Nel·lo, profesor del Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, y en su elaboración ha participado un equipo de 21 investigadores, integrado por arquitectos, economistas, geógrafos, politólogos y sociólogos.