Observar y documentar para planificar, proyectar y gestionar: la gestión de las transformaciones territoriales en América Latina

Abstract

The growing process of global urbanization and the concentration of population and resources in cities, demands an increasingly high level of knowledge, efficiency in the organization, and success in the project and management of the city by governments. Cities represent the strategic place of articulation of social structures, so that habitability tends to develop through sustainable guidelines, the basis of the collaborative research project presented. The figure of public managers, with innovative capacity and a high level of transversal training, based on multidisciplinary knowledge, must be taken into account to monitor new urban and territorial projects. It is in this line that the team of researchers constitutes a research space, based on learning by doing, based on the specific situations of the cities and deepens on a reflection, which establishes analogies, counterpositions, and transmission of project experience and city management between different contexts. A research approach is aimed at professional practice from a renewed vision of urban and disciplinary challenges. The lines of research described address key issues of the project and urban management. Likewise, participation in networks of international cities (and specifically Latin American) seeks to create a base for knowledge exchange and collaboration within the framework of globalization of a stable and lasting nature.