Unsustainability of social housing settlements in México: an approach from design thinking. Case study: Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.14.42.8256

Keywords:

Project management cycle, urban-environmental deterioration, complexity, urban planning

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to identify the drivers of deterioration of social housing settlements in México within the city-environment relationship. The methodology is divided into two sections: theoretical foundation and empirical data analysis. First part consists in analyzing the housing production management cycle based on its policies and administrative procedures and second part is an empirical approach to the problematic through design thinking considering the following stages: 1) Empathy with the user, 2) Problem definition, 3) Solution abstraction, 4) Conceptualization of a model and, 5) Performance assessment. Environmental deterioration of urban context of social housing in mexican cities is a result of: on one hand, decrease of State intervention over legislation and policies that regulate land speculation and social housing production and, on the other hand, the dilution over the responsibility of built environment between the municipality, developers, contractors and a weak regulation on welfare issues about the quality of social housing and its environment. This paper is a case study wich addresses the complexity of social housing production. It represents a methodological proposal to study the urban-environmental unsustainability of social housing settlements over multidisciplinary epistemological bases, such as: design thinking and project management.

Author Biographies

Citlalli Elizabeth Calderón Villegas, Instituto de Ecología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Doctorate student in Sustainability Sciences at the Instituto de Ecología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. Master of Science in Environmental Management from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN (Mexico) at the Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional with a research stay at the ETSAB of the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain). Degree in Architecture from the Instituto Tecnológico de Durango (Mexico). Her interests and lines of research focus on the production of space and its complexity: urban-environmental relations and socio-territorial structures, topogenesis of the place, urban form and social construction.

Hermilo Salas Espíndola, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

PhD and Professor in Architecture from the Facultad de Arquitectura of the UNAM. Architect by the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura with a specialty in housing, UNAM. Professor of the Facultad de Arquitectura of the UNAM since 1969. Responsible and founder of the field of knowledge in Economy, Politics and Environment, and Sustainable Design of the Master's and Doctorate Programs in Architecture and Urbanism of the UNAM. He is currently a tutor, co-tutor and thesis director, in addition to teaching with research workshops, seminars and selected topics. His career includes the foundation and presidency of several environmental and neighborhood associations with projects and advice on urban and environmental problems. His research lines are: architecture, construction and housing; economy, structure and urban processes; environment and city.

Patricia Ávila García, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Doctorate in Social Sciences from CIESAS with a Master's degree in Urban Development from the Colegio de México and a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from UNAM. She has studies in Economics, an international specialty in Sustainable Development and a Postdoctoral Degree in Global Change granted by the Technological University of Helsinki – El Colegio de México. She is currently Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad of the UNAM and National Researcher of the National System of Researchers Level Two. National Prize in Social Sciences by the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. Among its lines of research are: urban poverty, informal settlements, urban services and environmental management of the territory.

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Published

2020-02-29

Issue

Year 14, issue 42 (Feb. 2020)

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