International Urban Planning Research Seminar

FEAR MOVES: Different experiences of urbanity at the Jane’s Walk Recife Festival 2016, 2017, and 2022

2023-12-22T17:53:52+00:00

This paper reflects on fear as a constant, and not a variable, in the experience of urbanity in cities. To this end, it takes as an object three editions of the Jane’s Walk Festival in Recife: What makes a street safe for women? (2016), We ask for light (2017), and The city as a support for public art and life (2022). Despite the themes, participants, and different paths, all of them were crossed by fear. These crossings provide the three axes that guide the discussion of each case, namely: 1) Asymmetries; 2) Mitigations; 3) Memories – in a present, future, and past relationship with fear. Finally, a change of perspective is suggested in the way fear moves us, with
strategies that point to a less individual and more collective approach, that is, less focused on avoiding it and
more stimulating to face it.

Keywords: fear, Jane’s Walk, urbanity, walkability

Urban restructuring in Maceió-AL after soil subsidence. The unbalance in the action of space-producing agents

2024-01-19T17:06:31+00:00

Considered an ongoing urban socio-environmental disaster, the case of subsidence of the soil in Maceió-Alagoas-Brazil, is treated as a reference example to analyze the process of urban restructuring after mining activities. Linked to neoliberal policies, the city has its dynamics changed and led by capital, where one of the main agents of restructuring is the same responsible for causing the problem: the company Braskem. Thus, bibliographical research, analysis of official documents and up-to-date news about crime are used to compare and contrast the actions of the space producing agents, highlighting the imbalance between them. After 4 years of identifying the entity responsible for the sinking of the soil and cracks in buildings, and 4 years since the beginning of the removals of about 57 thousand people from 5 neighborhoods of Maceió, the transformations occur unattended, without planning and without State protagonism in the negotiations.

Keywords: urban restructuring, disaster, space-producing agents, neoliberalism.

INOVAÇÕES IMOBILIÁRIAS E UM NOVO SONHO DA CASA PRÓPRIA: Caracterização da oferta residencial de aluguel na área central do Recife

2023-12-27T16:26:58+00:00

In Brazil, the desire of home ownership can be associated with the idea of securing family assets in face of adversity and being able to secure a place in the city and avoid evictions. The “dream of home ownership” is opposed to rental housing, historically associated with a transitory condition of legal instability and insecurity that must be overcome. Recently, new projects are being increasingly dedicated to produce rental housing units. The new developments are, from the launching point, associated with digital real estate intermediation platforms and begin to praise the freedom of rent, presenting “uncomplicated” and “unbureaucratic” alternatives to access housing. This process is also promoting the dissolution of the boundaries between housing and accommodation as we know. This work aims to present some new rental housing developments in the central area of Recife, a capital in Northeast Brasil.

Keywords: real state, downtown, housing development, rental housing

Architecture, Urbanism and Social Mobility: Approaches between El Alto, Recife and São Paulo

2024-01-23T14:44:04+00:00

This article aims to understand the relationship between the emergence of economic elites in Latin America and the formation of physical, organizational and aesthetic spaces in cities. Moving away from readings that read this type of architecture still through the character of exoticism, a hegemonic vision within the debates of architecture and urbanism, we work with the hypothesis of these phenomena as complex processes, not isolated, connecting experiences in different locations. Taking as a motto the example of the Bolivian city of El Alto and its transformations with the lead role of the architect Freddy Mamani, this work focuses on the analysis of four regions in two Brazilian cities - North and South Zones of Recife and North and East Zones of São Paulo, offering a first look at the similarities and differences between territorial dynamics and the result of socioeconomic relations in the development of localities, especially through the work of architecture and construction professionals.

Keywords: Latin America, New Elites, Recife, São Paulo.

Edible Cities. Comparative Analysis of Productive Spaces in the Cities of Nantes and Recife

2024-01-12T10:50:02+00:00

One of the premises for sustainable development is urban planning aligned with solutions based on nature, that is, the natural systems of a city. These areas can still acquire a productive character, both economically and environmentally and sociologically, from the implementation of the practice of urban agriculture. Through the local and community production of organic food, it is possible to achieve both the activation of the public space and the promotion of cultural, educational and recreational activities. Thus, this research intends to understand the impact of urban agriculture on the development of sustainable cities, based on the analysis of consolidated food production initiatives in dense urban contexts, aiming to elaborate a morphotypological diagnosis of the main urban agriculture initiatives in the cities of Nantes and Recife.

Keywords: sustainability, urban agriculture, sustainable urbanism, productive spaces.

Urban coexistence and the ethics of otherness

2024-01-23T15:16:15+00:00

The article defends that the principles of hospitality, care and responsibility must support the urban interventions to stimulate the coexistence among different people. The article aims to show that, even in a world dominated with individualistic behavior, the condition of human vulnerability has a potential to act on those principles while unfolding in urban spatial organization. It was necessary to relate the ethics of alterity, as mediator of those principles, with certain spatial arrangements. This revealed to us that urbanism responds to coexistence when it promotes face to face between differentiated subjects, even challenging its applicability in an adverse political context.

Keywords: urban coexistence, ethics, otherness

PLANEJAMENTO REGIONAL E HABITAÇÃO RURAL NA AMÉRICA LATINA. O VI Curso Regional de Habitação Rural e os diálogos CINVA-SUDENE

2024-01-12T11:15:39+00:00

The main objective of this article is to collaborate in the historiographic construction of the development of Regional Planning in Latin America, understood as a thought and an area of activity in the interface between Rural Sociology and Urban Sociology, in the context of the subcontinent starting from the second half of the 20th century. In this sense, the VI Regional Course on Rural Housing, held in Brazil in 1965 through a pioneering partnership between the Centro Interamericano de Vivienda y Planeamiento (CINVA) and the Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE) is taken as a case study. Based on transnational dialogues in the subcontinent and based on the concept of contact zone as coined by Weinstein (2013), the article intends to clarify how the technical and intellectual means related the production and reproduction of Latin American rural spaces to Regional Planning in the subcontinent.

Keywords: Regional planning, Rural housing, CINVA, SUDENE.

The Olympic games and sustainability: Projections for Paris 2024 Between marketing, environmental preservation and social well-being.

2024-01-18T16:06:23+00:00

Since the 1960 Rome Olympics, the urban transformations triggered by the Olympic Games have gained a greater proportion, leading to a questioning of its heritage. In 2014, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released a document with 40 guidelines so that the bidding proposal became more aligned with the host city’s future development plan. In this context, Paris is preparing to host the 2024 Olympics, with a campaign strongly rooted in sustainability. Although the French capital already has a consolidated transport network and most of the sporting venues are already built, the sustainability narrative is questionable since it is a mega-event which generates huge carbon emissions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the Paris 2024 Olympic bid to understand the urban transformations provoked by the mega-event and how they might meet sustainability and urban
resilience criteria.

Keywords: mega-events, Olympics, Paris 2024, urban sustainability.

ESTUDO DA MORFOLOGIA URBANA DE UM BAIRRO-JARDIM Jardim São Bento, Casa Verde, São Paulo

2023-12-15T14:56:31+00:00

The history of São Paulo presents significant gaps regarding the development of its neighborhoods, therefore, the objective of the text is to present the historiographical reading of Jardim São Bento, in the north zone of the municipality. The neighborhood is part of a set of allotments implemented in the first half of the 20th century, inspired by the precepts of the garden city and which were used as a means of attraction and residential settlement for a specific layer of the population, the São Paulo elite. The research methodology is based on historiography and makes use of two approaches that are close to the English school of urban morphology: the reconstitution of the historical context of the period of conformation of the urban fragment and the analysis of the urban form, contemplating the questions referring to the implantation in the urban land from the layout of roads and blocks, the division of lots and the occupation of buildings within the lots.

Keywords: urban morphology; garden district; Jardim São Bento; urban form.

Typological Analysis of Vertical Housing Buildings in the Central Area of Macapá

2024-01-18T16:34:25+00:00

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AVAILABILITY AND DIVERSITY OF LANDSCAPES FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE: The case of cities exposed to tsunami hazard along the southern Pacific coast

2023-12-22T17:44:55+00:00

Chilean coastal cities grow and expand rapidly due to the development of real estate projects that replace natural systems with urbanized land. This change probably decreases post-disaster adaptation, and negatively affects the ecological dimension of resilience. The objective is to characterize the resilience capacity of Chilean cities exposed to tsunami, from the point of view of the ecological dimension. The socio-spatial analysis of land use, urbanization and population of 10 representative cities of the 53 exposed to tsunami, indicated that the urban occupation of the mountain range varies the availability and diversity of landscapes for adaptation in case of tsunami. However, these landscapes vary more noticeably latitudinally. The challenges and possibilities of including these landscapes in city planning are discussed in the context of the new DRR regulatory framework in Chile, broadening its perspective towards adaptation to disasters.

Keywords: Coastal cities, tsunami, urban resilience, adaptation, Chile

CIDADE VIBRANTE, MEMÓRIAS VIVAS: Gilda, Gênero e Dinâmicas Urbanas

2024-01-19T16:43:04+00:00

This study examines the urban configurations of Boca Maldita in Curitiba, Brazil, in relation to Gilda: a transgender person living on the streets and involved in carnival activities, and the LGBTQIA+ movement "Boca da Noite" (Mouth of the Night). The research investigates how urban planning strategies and the city's image have contributed to gender inequality in this context, focusing on the intersection of Rua XV de Novembro and Avenida Luiz Xavier. Using an exploratory qualitative approach based on bibliographic and documentary research, the results demonstrate Gilda's influence in advocating for rights and equity for the LGBTQIA+
community and driving urban transformations. Gilda's influence inspires performances and artistic installations in "Boca Maldita"/"Boca da Noite," promoting a more inclusive society. This study highlights the importance of defending human rights, including the right to the city, and provides valuable insights for the development of effective public policies towards inclusion and equity.

Keywords: Gilda, Boca Maldita, Urban dynamics, Gender inequality

CAN I GO ON FOOT? ICAM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ASSESSING WALKABILITY IN THE ROSA MÍSTICA COMMUNITY, CAMPINA GRANDE

2023-12-27T16:11:16+00:00

Walkability plays an important role in social well-being and the appreciation of public areas, and refers to the characteristics of the urban environment that affect pedestrian mobility. Therefore, the objective of this work is to evaluate how the methodology of iCam(2.0), an analysis tool of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), is able to measure walkability in precarious settlements. The study object is thecommunity of Rosa Mística in Campina Grande - PB, whose occupation began in the 1940s. The irregular occupation with precarious housing in a risk area, on the banks of Riacho das Piabas, combined with the lack
of infrastructure in some areas, hinders the walkability conditions for its residents. This way, it was possible to understand the main factors that interfere with local walkability and identify that must be made, as well as understand the weaknesses of the method when applied in an area with such specificities.

Keywords: Walkability, Urban Mobility, Precarious Settlements.

RUAS E INTELIGENCIAS URBANAS por uma governança inteligente e sustentável do Centro Histórico do Recife

2024-01-19T17:16:00+00:00

The article presented here aims to investigate methodologies of urban pedagogy capable of contributing to a more integrated and inclusive urban governance. Operationally, it is about the analysis of collective exercises inserted in an action research whose hypothesis defends that “the street is the synthesis unit of the city and, therefore, from its integrated and inclusive planning, it is possible to catalyze the conquest of healthier and more sustainable cities”. We will explore here the process of an urban pedagogy workshop called "Intelligences of the Center and for the Center: what intentions and actions?", prepared in the light of concepts such as “Urban Intelligences” (MATTERN, 2021) and “Citizen Street” (DUARTE at all, 2018), in addition to the approach of “Learning Territories” by Gwiazdzinski, L. & Cholat, F .(2021). As an expected result, it is intended to value discussions on the strategic role of streets and human intelligence in city governance.

Keywords: Streets, Urban Intelligences, Urban Pedagogy, Sustainable Urban Governance.

Mapping popular territories. a study on inequalities in Special Zones of Social Interest in Maceió/AL

2024-01-11T19:05:05+00:00

In view of the various possible approaches to investigating urbanism, this study addresses the challenge of speaking through the interweaving of city themes and their dynamics, based on the analysis of urban inequalities experienced in Maceió, focusing on its Special Zones of Social Interest (ZEIS). Thus, in order to analyze and compare, statistically and spatially, the structural and socioeconomic conditions of Alagoas’ capital, we adopted the Adapted Urban Well-Being Index as a method of observing this reality, using the Census of 2010 as a data source. The findings made it possible to identify the levels of urban well-being in the sectors of Maceió, supporting the discussion about the formulation of public policies aimed at mitigating the inequalities noted, especially, in their ZEIS.

Keywords: Urban Well-Being Index, inequalities, social mapping, Special Zones of Social Interest.

ROTAS CIDADÃS E CAMINHABILIDADE FI-DIGITAL. Metodologia multidisciplinar para identificação de rotas estratégicas para pedestres

2024-01-23T15:00:10+00:00

This paper shows the importance of identifying strategic walkable routes, with the aim of contributing to the health and a socio-environmental transition for the population and territory of Recife, with a focus on its Central area. The study is part of a multidisciplinary scientific initiation research proposal involving the areas of architecture, urbanism and computing. The set of strategic routes for pedestrians, here understood as a “phy-gital walkability platform”, considers the possibility of combining “physical walking” with “digital navigation” through streets and urban routes by automating and georeferencing the process of identifying walkable paths. The results obtained demonstrate the advances in the process of identification, representation and automation of the aforementioned walkability platform.

Keywords: street, walkable route, socio-environmental transition, health and sustainable mobility.

Forced Displacements in Maceió-AL due to soil subsidence. (In)actions, impediments and control

2024-01-12T11:04:36+00:00

This work intends to discuss the forced displacements that occur in the city of Maceió, capital of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, since it was verified that 5 districts of the capital were being affected by the subsidence of the soil caused by the mining of rock salt by the petrochemical company Braskem. This is a study that seeks to investigate the control of bodies in the territory in follow-ups after the onset of the problem and contribute to discussions on forced displacement, emphasizing the need to guarantee rights. After a bibliographical review, analysis of documents and technical reports, and collection and systematization of news published in the
media, it is observed that we are in a scenario of repeated violence practiced by the State and by the mining company that affect the bodies of the direct and affected crowd, generating impediments to mobility and full reproduction of social life.

Keywords: soil subsidence; forced displacements; immobilization; control of bodies;

FROM THE SHARED VALUE TO THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

2024-01-18T15:53:50+00:00

Driven by the central problem of the existence of ideological gaps in ordering cities and regions, the general objective of the research is to relate the conceptual conception of shared value (SV) to that of the right to the city. With exploratory methodological procedures, based on a review of secondary sources, the work was
structured in three main sections, with the first dedicated to the analysis of the reinvention of capitalism and the second directed to the understanding of the city, while the third collates both previous topic. The results achieved expose answers to the investigative question about the urban applicability of the SV that confirm the guiding hypothesis about the distancing of this strategy from economic profit as an exclusive purpose, making the activities profitable, both for public and private management, as well as for society itself, with a focus on sustainable development at an urban-regional context.

Keywords: reinvention of capitalism, understanding of the city, sustainable development, urban-regional
management

SOCIOSPATIAL STRUCTURE AND RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY Analysis of population redistribution among Montevideo's neighborhoods (2006-2011)

2023-12-15T14:41:57+00:00

Within the framework of metropolitan transformations in Latin American cities, this paper addresses the issue of residential mobility and its link with the socio-spatial structure of Montevideo. Based on a quantitative approach, residential mobility patterns are studied using a specific module of residential mobility questions from the Continuous Household Survey of the National Institute of Statistics of Uruguay. The results indicate that, despite the context of economic growth and reduction of income inequalities after the 2002 crisis, the residential mobility processes studied between 2006 and 2011 reinforce the existing dual socio-spatial structure. However, some socio-urban transformations are observed in central and intermediate areas that question this general trend.

Keywords: metropolitan dynamics, urban transformations, socioeconomic segregation, residential mobility

VALORIZAÇÃO ARQUITETÔNICA DA CASA FLUTUANTE DA AMAZÓNIA Sustentabilidade Identitária da Casa Flutuante de Manaus

2024-01-18T16:24:19+00:00

This study on the valorization of the houseboat in Manaus highlights the historical and cultural importance of this heritage for the city. In addition, the methodology used analyzes solutions adopted to preserve and promote the identity of this type of housing, as well as presents resources that should not be adopted. An emblematic example is the floating city of Manaus itself, an integral part of history, extinguished in 1967 with a ban on new construction and granted new solutions. However, the typologies adopted do not value the history, culture and memories of the houseboat. The results reveal the need for a concerted effort to protect and valorize these riverside dwellings, ensuring their integrity and contributing to the sustainability of the cultural landscape of the region. Based on these findings, it is argued that the valorization of the houseboat is esential for maintaining the sustainability and the historical and cultural identity of Manaus.

Keywords: Valorization, Floating House, Sustainability, Identity

References of the landscape and the production of space: The case of São Roque do Canaã/ES

2023-12-22T17:28:03+00:00

This article considers the impacts on the urban landscape as problematic, focusing on the possible loss of landscape references due to the cities' mode of production. This work is based on the method with a historical-geographical approach aligned with authors such as Conzen (1960), followed by the method structured by Mendonça (2005) for analyzing objects, highlighting the identification of landscape references and the definition of two levels of perception. The identification of two references associated with a historical and environmental context of the past, effective or objective of the approach of this article, at the same time that it presents the possibility of reflection on the form of urban production, as well as the value of its future permanence. It can be concluded that two physical, geographic, religious and social aspects are important for the emergence of the municipality and that the implantation of buildings in the central area reveals a compact city landscape, disconnected from local historical elements.

Keywords: São Roque do Canaã, materialities, landscape references, urban morphology.

Fractured Metropolis: a proposal for territorial integration

2024-01-19T16:32:47+00:00

The Metropolitan Region of Recife (Pernambuco), established in 1973 and comprised of 14 municipalities, is characterized by a low level of integration, hence the term - Fractured Metropolis. This designation arises from the fact that, when applying selected indicators to 12 recent Urban Expansion Sections, 60% of the studied areas exhibit low levels of territorial integration. From an innovation perspective, the proposed and utilized methodology in this investigation is considered relevant as it takes into account both the metropolitan and local scope. Moreover, it allows for extracting elements for comparative analysis based on the factors that contributed to the metropolis' expansion. The data considered have the potential to be used in territorial planning to mitigate spatially dispersed urban expansion, complement urban infrastructure, and identify suitable areas for new social housing developments.

Keywords: Fractured Metropolis, Territorial Integration Level, Interpretative Matrix.

The role of the university in the reurbanization of villas: Articulation of knowledge in the conformation of the collective landscape in Buenos Aires

2023-12-27T15:47:29+00:00

The work intends to cover the interactions and articulations between the FADU/UBA and the society in the projects of urbanization of villas in Buenos Aires, specifically from the year 2016. In our methodology, we seek to build a framework that is clear and accessible for the Latin American academic community, especially for students of architecture and urbanism. In a dialectical way, we will take the examples of Barrio Padre Mugica,
Playón Chacarita, Villa 20 and Barrio Rodrigo Bueno to research the processes of urbanization and the results in the construction of the landscape of each neighborhood. In this way, we intend to collaborate in the idea of conceiving the public University as a place for debating urgent urban issues and as an element of community bonding with the various urban realities.

Keywords: reurbanization, villas, architecture and urbanism, Buenos Aires

REGIONAL PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN: Compatibility and articulation in the proposals by Duhart for Arica (1968-71)

2024-01-19T17:09:57+00:00

The paper explains how the different levels -regional, urban, and sectional- were made compatible and assumed in the planning process in an alleged common directionality and efficiency of the system. An exceptional case of action is assumed at three levels, under the same professional -Emilio Duhart- and in the exact location, - Arica, Chile-. The Pre-investment Study for the province of 1968 at the level of regional planning, the proposed Urban Plan for the city of 1969, and the Sectional Plan for the central area of 1970-71 are presented. The keys of the pre-investment studies, the regulatory plan, and the sectional plan for the city center are analyzed, verifying the sustainability of actions to be implemented at the three levels and their coherence, compatibility, and project development.

Keywords: urban design, urban planning, regional planning, Arica, Chile

CORREDORES URBANOS DE HUMEDAD Reflexiones sobre el calentamiento global y las franjas de oportunidad

2024-01-11T18:52:00+00:00

Los territorios de las ciudades costeras del gran Valparaíso, son territorios que simulan una frontera entre lo urbano y lo rural que se entrelazan con la ciudad y son responsables de zurcir la relación entre el calentamiento global y la transformación del paisaje. La humedad superior al 50% permite la existencia del bosque esclerófilo y con ello los encuentros ecosistémicos, sociales y culturales. Esta humedad que viaja en ambas direcciones entre el Pacífico y la cordillera por las quebradas de la costa, es un espesor húmedo que construye los corredores de amortiguación del cambio climático en una de las ciudades turísticas de América Latina. El presente documento, es parte de la investigación del Doctorado de Sostenibilidad y Regeneración Urbana de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, cuya investigación aplicada busca evidenciar la oportunidad que representan las Áreas Húmedas Urbanas (AHUa) para la mitigación del impacto del cambio climático en ciudades costeras.

Palabras clave: Infraestructura, Humedad, Calentamiento global, Bosque-Esclerófilo.

Urban Project in Colombia: From idea to execution. The Case of Medellin

2024-01-23T14:51:55+00:00

Urban projects in Colombia, specially those located in the municipality of Medellín, increasingly reverberate not only in the academic environment and in urban debate, but also attract the attention of tourists and the mainstream média. But what is the singularity of the Colombian case, what are the structural issues that allowed its urban innovations? This research aims to relate the main elements between the conception, operationalization, and operation of urban projects in Colombia. We aim to analyze in detail the decision-making process of urban issues in Colombia and what was the conjunction of specific factors of the Colombian reality that allowed the consolidation of urban projects that are known worldwide today.

Keywords: Urban design, Urban scale, Partial plans, Colombia

A new perspective on the Rosa Mística. Proposal for urban and environmental requalification of a section of the Piabas Stream

2024-01-12T10:56:39+00:00

The objective of this work is to present a proposal for the urban and environmental redevelopment of a section of Riacho das Piabas, located within the Rosa Mística community in Campina Grande. The methodology employed various procedures: (i) characterization of the integration of the Permanent Preservation Area within the Open Spaces System; (ii) qualitative analysis of previously conducted urban assessments; and (iii) utilization of the SWOT matrix as a strategy for formulating guidelines and actions. The outcome is the design of a linear park, accompanied by two open spaces, with guidelines aimed at mitigating floods, restoring the
creek's ecological balance, and fostering strategies to enhance the city's response to crisis situations. Ultimately, this work is expected to contribute to the promotion of environmental justice and the establishment of more equitable and sustainable societies.

Keywords: Urban requalification. Urban design. Urban sustainability. Open spaces.

INDUSTRIALIZATION OF WOODEN BUILDINGS IN CHILE. A multiscale approximation between sustainability and territorial conflicts

2024-01-23T15:19:30+00:00

Wooden construction has been present since the beginning of humanity, but today, faced with the effects of climate change and sustainability discourses, the use of wood as a construction material is presented as a sustainable option. In this sense, in the Latin American region, Chile is one of the most advanced countries in this matter, however, in comparative terms with Europe and North America, wood construction is still in its infancy. The development of wooden construction has been driven mainly by the two main forestry companies in Chile (ARAUCO and CMPC), who have implemented several initiatives to promote wooden construction, including the manufacture of CLT and high-tech prefabricated housing plants. , which has been promoted through a discourse of urban sustainability on the part of the forestry holdings that has been promoted by the State, but that hides the territorial tensions given in the production of the raw material, in local urban planning and in “sustainable” practices in the territories. Therefore, this article analyzes in multi-scale terms the territorial and discursive implications of the Chilean forestry sector associated with the industrialization of wooden construction, through a review of the state of the art referring to the forestry sector, the housing deficit, projects in wooden building and public policies related to the promotion of wooden building in Chile (corporate/institutional documents, web pages, magazines and promotional activities, residential projects, policies related to wooden construction, technical reconfiguration of the forestry industry, etc. ), and correlative discourse analysis to understand the industrialization process of wooden construction (coding based on the word "sustainability" and "construction"). In such a way that the article starts by making an introduction of what wooden construction is to contextualize the Chilean case. Then, the milestones that gave rise to the use of this material in the construction of residential projects are pointed out, pointing out who and where these events took place and under what discourses they were implemented. Continuing with the presentation of the role of the state and the promotion of wooden construction, through the various public policies that have been designed and established. Ending with a theoretical discussion about the discourses of sustainability and territorial planning.

Keywords: wooden buildings, wooden housing projects, sustainable urban planning, territorial conflicts

INVESTIGAÇÃO SOBRE CRITÉRIOS DE AVALIAÇÃO DA CAMINHABILIDADE SOB A PERSPECTIVA DE GÊNERO

2024-01-18T15:37:56+00:00

This study approaches walkability focusing on gender, one of the defining shades of the social roles that structure society and their impositions of significance and meaning in walking around the city. It aimed to investigate criteria that reveals the experience of women walking around the city. Based on statements by Calió (1997), the presented hypothesis is that the urban space is unequal and, when it comes to women, it conforms to a relationship of non-belonging, of non-place. The theoretical review dealt with the study of walkability, the inclusion of gender as a category of analysis and urbanism from a gender perspective. A hierarchical matrix of criteria was then constructed – by extracting key points – that could be indicative and evaluative of the walkability of gender (specifically the female public) and the friendliness of the urban space.

Keywords: walkability, gender, intersectionality, women

Cidade Cor de Rosa. Cidade inclusiva a partir de códigos urbanísticos ancestrais reconfigurados pelas favelas

2024-01-18T16:15:58+00:00

The ongoing doctoral research integrates a historical approach to socio-spatial practices, urban form and normative patterns in Brazilian cities, with a focus on Recife, considering ancestral urban codes reconfigured by favelas. Here is presented an excerpt from the investigation referring to the analysis of the urban morphology of the ZEIS (Special Social Interest Zone) Brasília Teimosa, located in the city of Recife, in Brazil. It is a community with significant richness in the forms of construction and occupation of the territory, similar to other self-produced settlements in Recife, with the potential to establish new urban standards. The methodology followed is based on the principles of Caniggia and Panerai for typomorphological analysis, with emphasis on the study of occupation and volumetry. It shows the predominant types that will be articulated with everyday
practices and ZEIS codes, under study, as an alternative to structure future legislation, mixing urban patterns of the favela and the bourgeois city.

Keywords: Brasília Teimosa, ZEIS, typomorphology, legislation.

PERCEPÇÃO DA PAISAGEM DE PARQUES URBANOS: abordagem ensaística de busca pela estética e pela funcionalidade

2023-12-15T15:01:35+00:00

Faced with the relevance of perceptual studies for the interpretation of citizens' satisfaction with the landscape of cities and the central problem of the tendency to design nonconformities in urbanized areas, the general objective of the research is to develop a perception essay on urban parks in Curitiba, Paraná, through diagnosis of aesthetic and functional aspects. With a quali-quantitative approach, applied nature and experimental focus, the investigation was based on methodological procedures linked to the interpretation of responses to an online questionnaire, composed of open and closed questions. As answers to the investigative question about what are the preferred form and function characteristics in nine parks in that city, the essayistic results on figurative-aesthetic and orientation-functional variables attest to the guiding hypothesis that some user preferences are not properly considered in the spatial conception, reinforcing the importance of compositional and utilitarian quality for the appropriation of these public spaces.

Interpretative Planning as an Alternative to Heritage Recognition of The Cariri Paraibano: A tourist and cultural itinerary for the city of Monteiro

2024-01-19T16:21:28+00:00

The formation of the territory of Paraíba stems from accumulation practices and the articulation of urban centers with sociocultural and natural similarities and specificities, which resulted in the diversity of the state's cities. However, we identified gaps in the heritage recognition of these settlements, an aspect reflected in the degree of preservation. Like the city of Monteiro, which in addition to not carrying out heritage education actions, does not have institutional recognition and its safeguard stems from economic inertia. Thus, we question: how to promote the recognition and continuity of its heritage? For the Contemporary Theory of Conservation, the maintenance of assets is linked to the relationship with individuals, from which their heritage emerges (Viñas, 2006). Which leads to the hypothesis of Interpretive Planning as an alternative to promoting culture and encouraging local preservation. Thus, the objective is to report the experience of developing a tourist and cultural route through interpretive planning for the city of Monteiro.

Keywords: interpretive planning, tourist and cultural itinerary, cultural heritage.

Use and Appropriation of Public Space: A case study at Santos Dumont Square in Florianópolis (SC)

2023-12-22T17:49:35+00:00

Public spaces play an important role in promoting social interactions between different social agents. In this
context, it is important to evaluate appropriation in public spaces and identify the different forms that generate
diversity in them. Santos Dumont Square, the empirical object of this work, corresponds to a centrality of the
Trindade neighborhood in Florianópolis (SC) and is characterized by the diversity of uses in the surroundings.
The objective of the research is to carry out an analysis of the appropriation of this space, quantifying and
analyzing users and predominant activities. For this, the reading of co-presence (Gehl & Svarre, 2018;
Tenório, 2012) and the behavioral map (Sommer & Sommer, 1997) were used as a methodology. The results
show that flows are intense on the periphery of the square and are concentrated during business hours.
These results reflect the difficulties posed by the existing unevenness and the predominance of commercial
uses and services in the immediate surroundings.

Keywords: appropriation, public space, squares, copresence

RURAL REMAININGS IN RECIFE: space, time and analysis of the remaining rural architecture

2024-01-19T17:03:08+00:00

This article presents the preliminary outcomes of an ongoing research endeavor in which we initially delve into foundational concepts aimed at comprehending the urban landscape, while considering the rural structures within this milieu. These conceptual underpinnings encompass space, time, and landscape. Following the
establishment of this foundational understanding, we progress to gather records and data archived within municipal and state institutions, spanning the period from 1875 to 2014. These records encapsulate diverse temporal situations, thereby enabling a historical analysis of the integration of rural life into the urban environment and how this interplay contributes to a nuanced comprehension of the territory of the city of Recife.

Keywords: space, rural, urban, territory.

ENHANCEMENT OF THE RIVER SPACE IN RURAL LOCALITIES: landscape projects in the Alberti district, Buenos Aires province, Argentina

2023-12-27T16:20:00+00:00

The work presents a portfolio of landscape project ideas to value public river space in the Alberti district, Province of Buenos Aires. The territory of action is cut to rural localities linked to the Salado River and its tributaries contained by two main roads of national and provincial connectivity. As a result, a portfolio with fifteen project ideas was obtained that prefigures a comprehensive intervention strategy for the riverside space and nearby towns and, later, the evaluation carried out by the specialists in charge of the study and the municipal actors. With this input, four project ideas were defined according to weighting to prepare the preliminary projects at a later stage.

Keywords: landscape, territorial planning, riverside, project ideas

POST-PANDEMIC SCENARIOS OF THE URBAN REGENERATION IN DELTA AVENUE, GUAYAQUIL. Public space adaptability and disintegration of the equipment and services’ band

2024-01-23T14:21:56+00:00

Public space, an urban concept related to the city, since it’s there where it arose, is also the greatest transformation stage of the inhabited and experiential space in which the human being develops in its different contexts (Sánchez Padilla et al. 2022). Due to that precept, the present research paper focuses on the 530-meter Delta Avenue intervention, adjacent to the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador, whose first stage of regeneration concluded of the year 2020 is open for the use of public and private space by the university community; however, in post-pandemic scenarios and with a return to face-to-face activities, spontaneous adaptations of itinerant commerce arise in pedestrian areas that break up the equipment and services’ band that currently suffers an urban remanence, as it’s vital to evaluate the spatial demands with student predominance.

Keywords: Guayaquil, public space, pedestrian flows, commercial segregation.

EASEMENTS AND RESIDUAL SPACES FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL USE. Case study human settlement Cooperativa San Francisco Guayaquil, Ecuador

2024-01-12T10:40:23+00:00

The public space in the city is the support of its urban structure and spatial organizer, whose presence allows the articulation at a physical-functional level; conceptually it defines the symbolic and interpretative; it is the place of social representation, the basis for the recognition of memory and identity. In the informality of human settlements, most of them are discarded areas from the process of illegal land occupation, which initially serve as access and are later destined as roads, therefore, the possibility of having recreational spaces is almost nil, in this scenario, an element present in most occupations is addressed, such as easements or residual spaces. The objective of this study is to formulate physical-spatial strategies for the generation of public spaces, essential components for the social interaction of its inhabitants in the post-COVID world.

Keywords: city, public space, human settlement, residual space.

Architecture collectives in Recife. From the emergence to the incorporation of practices in institutional projects in Recife post #OcupeEstelita.

2024-01-23T15:11:15+00:00

Despite not having achieved all the proposed objectives, the #OcupeEstelita movement left an important legacy in Recife, Brazil. One of the legacies was to inspire a generation of young architects to organize themselves into collectives and explore new territories and ways of working in the city. The collaborative work carried out by the collectives, focusing on tactical urbanism actions, had a significant impact and led to the incorporation of their practices and members in municipal institutional projects, such as Parque Capibaribe and Mais Vida Nos Morros. In this article, through interviews with six members of local collectives who later became involved in the analyzed institutional projects, we establish a parallel between the performance of urban collectives and institutional interventions. The testimonies allow us to assess the motivations, conditions, limits of action and dilemmas of collaborative practices in facing the profound lack of infrastructure and urban maintenance that characterize Recife.

Keywords: Collectives of architecture, tactical urbanism, urban renewal.

LANDSCAPE PERCEPTION AND REPRESENTATION. From my bedroom window i see...

2024-01-12T11:10:05+00:00

Este trabalho descreve ferramentas didáticas utilizadas na atividade "Da Janela do Meu Quarto Eu Vejo...", atividade direcionada a discentes do primeiro semestre do curso de arquitetura e urbanismo. O artigo tem como objetivo apresentar as ferramentas e o referencial teórico que embasam a atividade, sua aplicação e resultados. A dinâmica aqui descrita encoraja os alunos a desenvolver um olhar reflexivo sobre a paisagem, assim como habilidades de representação abstrata. O debate teórico aborda definições de paisagem e questões relativas à definição, representação escrita e pictórica da paisagem. Neste último ponto, a questão do processo de abstração foi especialmente trabalhada. Por fim, são discutidos os resultados textuais e gráficos da atividade e seus possíveis desdobramentos.

Palavras chave: paisagem, percepção, representação.

URBAN GUIDELINES OF PUBLIC SPACE AS AN ARTICULATING FACTOR OF SUPERBLOCKS. Case study the Alborada Guayaquil, Ecuador

2024-01-18T16:00:37+00:00

The city, a multifunctional space in constant transformation in which its public space is the support of its urban structure (Rossi, 1995) the place of social representation, the space for the recognition of memory and identity (Campoverde Tábara et al., 2022)The planning of cities in Latin America has been to allocate public spaces for motorized mobility. The effects generated by the covid 19 pandemic generate confrontations that all of society must face, and imply changes in its planning, one of them is to encourage the population to have physical activity, therefore, cities must develop an action plan on their urban morphology defined by its blocks and land uses, as the resources to propose urban concepts, such as the macroblocks. This study addresses the urban centrality of La Alborada, predominantly residential and the economic engine of northern Guayaquil.

Keywords: public space, superblock, city, guidelines.

Urban Plan of Matosinhos Sul Origin, Layout and Implementation at the end of the 19th century

2023-12-15T14:48:55+00:00

This investigation focuses on the urban layout of Matosinhos Sul (Portugal) and will try to explain the differences between the initial plan, by Licínio Guimarães, and the current urban layout. The design of the current plan and its original use is questioned, because the only plan known so far reveals a layout that does not match reality. This research aims to determine the transformations that defined the urban shape of Matosinhos Sul, through
the analysis and crossing of the original plan with unpublished drawings, essential to understand the path taken between the project and its materialization. From the analysis of drawings and historical facts, it will be possible to understand the processes that led to the definition of the current morphology and respond to the questions raised. The clarification of this theme fills a gap in the history of Matosinhos and deepens knowledge about the urban evolution of the city.

Keywords: Urban Plan, Matosinhos Sul, Urban Morphology, Licínio Guimarães.

Transcriptions and psychogeographies Movement as an urban design method

2024-01-18T16:30:22+00:00

The drift, or dérive, technique used by the Situationist International, is put into practice in the city of Ayacucho, as it traverses the spaces of memory left by the latent armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). The search and analysis of old aerial photographs and maps obtained from georeferenced information systems are carried out to distinguish the physical-environmental changes in different units of the environment (unités d'ambiance). Finally, reference is made to the work of Bernard Tschumi in the original publication "The Manhattan Transcripts," which is related to research on the relationship between event-object-movement. Here, the method is abstracted to graphically represent the obtained spatial sequences, creating a new metalinguistic narrative beyond a single dimension. The process of spatial exploration results in a psychogeographic guide of Ayacucho in three sequences of events during the years of the conflict, considering it as an urban matter in the relationship between city, object, and event.

Keywords: Transcriptions, psychogeographies, armed conflict, units of environment.

Housing in Historic Centers and Urban Vitality: dynamics of the center of Florianópolis

2023-12-22T17:34:37+00:00

The issues related to the emptying and deterioration of historic centers are increasingly discussed in urban
studies. In this context, the analysis of the role of housing use in the vitality of these spaces and the growing
tertiary specialization are always present. Deepening this problematic, this paper aims to problematize the
relations between urban vitality and housing in the historic center of Florianópolis. The methods used
comprise the mapping of census data, research and mapping of land uses and characterization of the main
existing housing typologies. Moreover, the information is crossed with the co-presence and appropriation of its
public places of collective use. The results show the expressive absence of housing, related to the
specialization in the tertiary sector. This phenomenon results in the desertification of the area during noncommercial
hours, which significantly affects the pre-existing conditions of urban vitality.

Keywords: urban vitality, housing, historical centerse, Florianópolis.

UNIDAD DE HABITACIÓN N°1 BUCEO. Un proyecto urbano-habitacional modelo para la ciudad de Montevideo

2024-01-19T16:37:17+00:00

Constructive rationalization regarding housing for the working classes in Uruguay quickly embraced prefabrication and standardization as necessary conditions for mass production of housing units in the 1950s. However, as these projects grew in ambition, incorporating community facilities, services, and resources, the institutions responsible for driving them began to consider the problem at a different scale: once the strategy was resolved at the individual plot level, the interest shifted to the realm of urban planning. It was in this context that the political and technical consensus of the time, reflected in the 1956 Montevideo Master Plan, promoted Neighborhood Units as the instrument capable of organizing the expanding urban sprawl. This led to the execution of some of the most ambitious urban-housing projects in the country's history, with one of the
most renowned cases being the Unidad Habitacional No. 1 in Buceo.

Keywords: Neighborhood Unit, Modern Movement, Urban Project, Montevideo

Over bygone waters: Presences of Mauritsstad in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

2023-12-27T15:54:27+00:00

Mauritius City (1637-1654) emerged as a moment of Batavian interference in the history of Brazilian cities. The Brazilian urbanization had, during colonial times, the Portuguese constructive character as the main logical and formal reference and after the expulsion of the Dutch, this character was also present in Recife, with the
superposition of constructions and infrastructure by a new logic of occupation. With this study, we seek to investigate in what way the Dutch presence is still present in the current city, either in a sense of logical permanence, i.e., through attributes that guide the city form, or sensitive permanence, urban areas that resemble, as landscape, the former city. In this way, we seek to construct an identity narrative that recognizes the genesis of Recife as relevant to the cultural landscape of the current city.

Keywords: Landscape, Memory, Dutch Brazil, Cultural identity.

SOCIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS CLUSTERS: evidence from MCMV location analysis

2024-01-19T17:12:59+00:00

Based on empirical quantitative and locational analyses, this article intends to present evidence of spatial concentration existence in social housing projects produced by Minha Casa Minha Vida Program between 2009 and 2020. Among 17,393 locations analyzed, 8,216 (or 47%) are less of 1,500 meters from at least two other developments financed by the same program. The national average is 4.25 similar developments within the studied radius of 1,500 meters. This preference for proximity seems to be related to real estate market strategies and to economic efficiency search.

Keywords: affordable housing, social housing location, Minha Casa Minha Vida

REABILITAÇÃO DE EDIFICAÇÕES EM ÁREAS CENTRAIS. Contribuições do research by design para o Edifício Sulamérica (Recife)

2024-01-11T19:01:39+00:00

The emptying of central areas in Brazilian cities is part of an urban growth process that pushed the most vulnerable population towards the peripheries, while the middle and upper-class population began to occupy new areas of real estate expansion. As a result, there was a decrease in the number of residents in the central areas, the emptying of buildings and the degradation of historical heritage. Since the 1940s, Recife, the territory of study, has faced the emptying of its historic center. The study entitled Moradia no Centro (Habitat Brazil, 2018) demonstrates, for example, the existence of 112 buildings with more than five floors in some state of abandonment in just one of the historical neighborhoods of Recife. Based on this data, since 2019 the authors of this research have focused on the theme, seeking to understand how the situation is advancing and what are the possible alternatives to the issue.

Keywords: housing in central areas, rehabilitation, social housing, research by design.

TURISMO SOCIAL Y PAISAJE DESDE EL OLVIDO. El caso de los Balnearios Populares en Chile (1970-1973)

2024-01-23T14:55:48+00:00

During the government of Salvador Allende (1970-73), Chile implemented a state program of Social Tourism that materialized the right to rest. At least sixteen resorts were built: villas that included "A" type cabins with prefabricated structure, common kitchen and dining room, bathrooms, and community areas. However, after the military coup (1973), they were confiscated and transformed into detention and torture centers, vacation destinations for uniformed personnel, or sold to private individuals. As a result, the resorts went through a long process of invisibility and oblivion, almost completely erasing the record of their existence. Despite this, the memory of these places endures in the various material vestiges scattered along the coast. The research is based on documentary, iconographic, primary source materials, and trips throughout Chile, which sought to verify the existence of the 16 resorts, their location conditions, transformations, and current state, in order to reconstruct this part of history.

Keywords: social tourism, seaside resorts, landscape, memory.

The use of ICTs in selfconstructed territorries. The 4D mapping of Rocinha and the right to the city

2024-01-12T11:01:01+00:00

This article proposes an observation about slums and ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), aiming to analyze in which measure, the use of contemporary technologies in poor areas can promote the reduction of social and spatial inequality in Brazilian cities. To reach that, the article shows a case study about the 4D mapping of Rocinha Slum, an experimental action lead by MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) together with the government of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study discusses the concept of smart cities, its singularities and its application in such a complex and unequal context, which are the population’s condition of social participation in a project this big in a favela like Rocinha. In the end, some reflections related to right to the city are made and how can technology contribute or not to amplify the access of this right.

Keywords: right to the city, smart city, Rocinha slum, self-constructed territories.

AMPLIANDO LA GOBERNANZA SOCIOESPACIAL DEL NEXO PUERTOCIUDAD-REGIÓN. Una revisión de las perspectivas para un urbanismo global desde el sur

2024-01-23T15:25:17+00:00

In recent years, research on the governance of port cities has gained significance. On the one hand, this is due to the prominent role of ports in a new global context of commodity movement and their novel spatial relationships with urban development. On the other hand, it is a result of proposing new governance frameworks to plan these novel interactions between the city and the port, also known as Port Cities. However, the definitions and perspectives of Port Cities stem from the urban profile of cities within the canon of northern global urban theory. Faced with this, the present essay reflects upon the theorization of the city-port based on its definitions and perspectives from a spatial aspect, and how comparative approaches can extend the theorization of port city governance towards a global urbanism from the Global South.

Keywords: socio-spatial governance, port-city-region nexus, global southern urbanism

Creative Clusters and transformations in the territory

2024-01-18T15:51:31+00:00

The convergence of factors such as globalization, technological development, the emergence of new media, the fragmentation of production and consumption chains, and the appreciation of creativity and innovation as new assets are presented as driving forces of an economic restructuring capable of pointing out a fairer and more balanced socioeconomic development path in contemporary society. Despite the abstract character of the theme, this new economy – the Creative Economy – is associated with the urban space, where economic and human relations take place. In this context, productive arrangements or creative clusters tend to provoke significant transformations, when supported by deep and continuous sectorial public policies. This article, developed from a in-depth literature review, is motivated by the analysis of these relationships, which have
paved the creation of new centers of creativity as references for culture, entrepreneurship, technology, academic training and citizenship, as witnessed by experiences in several cases with socioeconomic repercussions in the regions where they were implemented.

Keywords: Creative Economy, Creative Industries, Creative Cities, Creative Clusters.

Technologies of the Commons. Fictions about the caring city and the production of housing cooperatives in Uruguay

2024-01-18T16:19:41+00:00

The houses made in Uruguay under the cooperative system since the beginning of the 70s, are recognized as a socially and politically legitimized way of collective construction of the habitat. From its bases, the system promotes a collective model that forms an alternative to the hegemonic ways of the market to produce habitable space with a national territory reach. The proposal presented is the result of the link between academic networks and the Gender Area of the Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Cooperatives (FUCVAM) with the aim of building a critical and proactive look at the modes of production and use of the housing cooperatives collective space, leaning on urban formulations of feminism. Particularly, addressing hypotheses of transformations in the configuration, quantification, distribution, uses and arrangements of common spaces, understood as areas capable of redirecting roles and relationships, based on sex-gender regulations, and articulating various social care strategies linked to the sustainability of life.

Keywords: Care, Commons, Cooperatives, Gender

FEMINIST URBANISM: from seclusion at home to the right to the city

2023-12-15T15:08:12+00:00

From the understanding of cities as spaces constructed and modified by social arrangements and political norms, another perspective is suggested in its historiographical analysis, based on the central problem of the traditional distance of women from urbanistic decisions. In this context, the general objective of the research is to examine their invisibility in urban planning over time. Derived from methodological procedures of review of secondary sources, the results are structured in four main parts, according to historical ages: Ancient – between matriarchies and patri-systemas; Medium – between confinement and seclusion; Modern – between isonomies and inequalities; and Contemporary – between duties and rights. In these scenarios, they attest to the guiding hypothesis of deprivation of female participation in the process, with the answers to the investigative question pointing to ways of overcoming this retrospective omission, supported by principles of feminist urbanism in the search for the right to the city for different genders.

Key words: feminine invisibility; urban planning; historical periods; gender perspective.

URBAN AREAS AT WATER BORDER. The Riacho das Piabas and its integration with the city of Campina Grande

2024-01-19T16:26:07+00:00

The nature of cities is closely linked to the presence of water. Thus, the banks of rivers and lakes are pivotal spaces for the daily life and history of the city. In Brazil, since the 1950s, urban rivers have been suffering an intense process of irregular occupation of their banks and reduction of their bed, which not only increases the
risks of overflow, but also of forgetfulness and contempt for the population, hindering the integration of these bodies of water with the city. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the integration of the Piabas Creek with the city of Campina Grande, based on the morphological analysis of the urban area that borders it. It is assumed that the way spaces are built and connected to each other generates different levels of integration of the water body with the city, which can facilitate or hinder the valorization and appropriation of it by the population. The results revealed that there are unequal levels of integration of the Creek with its north and south surroundings, configuring the same also as a boundary between its east and west surroundings.

Keywords: Spatial Integration; Urban Form; Water Bodies.

Morphological patterns, spatial configurations and history at the border: analysis in the municipalities of Paranhos (BR) and Ypejhú(PY)

2023-12-06T14:33:36+00:00

The research has as object of study Paranhos (BR) located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and Ypejhú (PY) located in the Department of Canindeyú, cities located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. It seeks to understand regional population flows, territorial conflicts and their dynamics, leveraged by the economics of agricultural expansion. It aims to search for references of territorial occupations and to identify similarities or distinctions in the observed morphological patterns. The hypothesis is that the strengthening of the economy, followed by agricultural expansion, intensified socio-spatial conflicts in the Guarani-Kaiowá indigenous territories and contributed to the formation of different spatial configurations on both sides of the border. The method of analysis was through historical, bibliographical and field research and examination of satellite images available on Google Earth. Thus, the results pointed to the identification of relevant spatial arrangements and territorial conformations as well as historical details that helped to answer research questions.

Keywords: urban form; Space settings; borders.

ANDALUSIA, MERCOSUR AND AFTERWARDS. The circulation of ideas and urban policies around Plan Montevideo

2024-01-24T15:19:33+00:00

We propose the analysis of the circulation of ideas and urban policies that revolve around the process of the Montevideo Plan, an instrument of territorial ordering elaborated by a triumvirate and approved in 1998 by a majority of councilors in the Departmental Board of Montevideo, legislative body and controller of the Departmental Government. In that direction, as conditions of possibility of the Plan, on the one hand we study the Ibero-American networks that arise around the fifth centenary of the discovery of America, emphasizing the Andalusian cooperation in Montevideo. On the other, we reveal the Mercosurian networks, which emerged at the height of the global cities, and the Montevidean way as a local way of approaching the urban question in the nineties. We conclude with the proposal of a new construct that we have called the Montevideo System.

Keywords: Montevideo Plan; circulation of ideas and urban policies in Iberoamerica, andalusian cooperation, Mercosur

Drawing the Caribbean

2023-12-14T19:17:27+00:00

How is the Gulf-Caribbean configured as a place defined and measured by its physical conditions? And as a space perceived, lived, represented, and imagined, how is it inserted within the ecumene understood by the Western world? This communication seeks to explore the five centuries and a little more of the Caribbean as a desire, as a territory and as a horizon. Inspired by the centuries of great explorations and transatlantic voyages, three "courses" are proposed that, mobilizing the tools of history, geography, urban studies and visual arts, reconstitute certain mechanisms and processes through which today’s Greater Caribbean is apprehended as the complex transterritorial entity that it constitutes. The first course takes us to the chimerical past of the Sea of Darkness and the legendary islands that will become the Antilles archipelago; the second course is a journey through the port cities frequented by steamships in the era of transatlantic expansion, while the third course is set in the natural and tax havens of the contemporary Greater Caribbean.

Keywords: Caribbean Sea, visual culture, image of the city, territory

THE THRESHOLD’S THICKNESS. Urbanity, Form and Type of Transition Spaces in the City of Lisbon

2024-01-24T15:11:49+00:00

This paper aims to identify and decode the diversity of transition spaces, in-between public, and private urban elements. These transition spaces, shaped by architectural devices that mediate public-private relations and the activities that unfold in them, reveal specific urban qualities. By elaborating a previous classification of these transition architectonic devices, identifying their types, and understanding their appropriations, the research expects to decode the composition of these transition fluid figures in urban space. These porous spaces build the hypothesis that the condition of urban life is correlated with the form that supports it, making of transition spaces urban catalysts. Having the city of Lisbon as study field, this research combines a typo-morphological approach with the behavior impact of transition space users, proposing a matrix, supported by interpretative drawing, that allows to focus on diverse case studies using distinct indicators.

Keywords: transition spaces, threshold, typo-morphology, material urbanity, Lisbon.

MAKING A HOME IS MAKING A CITY. How the city is made in the Plan Juntos from Montevideo, between 2012-2022

2023-12-06T15:11:48+00:00

In 2010, former President José Mujica declared an emergency for the population in a precarious social housing situation. Subsequently, in 2011 he created the Juntos Social-Housing Integration Plan to address the social-housing emergency of the poorest sectors, excluded from State housing programs, through actions aimed at improving the quality of life and promoting socio-spatial integration. . The Plan Juntos carries out multidimensional interventions in the territory, addresses housing and the provision of public services. Families participate in the construction of their homes through mutual aid or self-construction. It is a relatively new housing program in Uruguay. In the course of these years, it has modified the intervention in the neighborhood, the participation of families and the construction technologies used. These modifications are reflected in the quality and materiality of the houses, in the appropriation of the beneficiaries and their belonging to the neighborhood or territory.

Keywords: comprehensive evaluation; social housing; housing vulnerability; projects.

THE CONTEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGINARY OF IDENTITY. Public space in La Araucanía, Chile

2024-03-21T18:01:53+00:00

Urban and geographical imaginaries seem to be bearers of the local elite’s cultural ideologies in their search to organize territories. During the 19th century, the Chilean state began a territorial occupation process in Araucania under a civilizing ideal and an empty conception of space, using a group of actions linked by the railroad. These matters were at the base of the Nation-State’s consolidation (Pinto, 2003). The research questions the insistence to evoke railroad elements in the design of public spaces during different temporalities, and in return, to reflect on remembering the elements of Mapuche culture as a response to the imposition of hegemonic urban imaginaries. This work, from a quantitative approach, has the purpose of comparatively analyzing public spaces in Araucania’s coastal and mountain cities and examining their contextual imaginaries.

JARDIM LAPENA NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN The Neighborhood Plan and the Pacto pelas Cidades Justas initiative in Lapena

2023-12-06T14:48:47+00:00

This article aims to present the elaboration process of the Jardim Lapena Neighborhood Plan, the results obtained, and discuss the actions that aim at the continuity of the process of urban requalification, in the context of the Movimento Pacto pela Cidades Justas. What would be the next steps for the territorialization of the Neighborhood Plan is the question stated. The hypothesis sustained in this article is that the third sector, more than the public power, has the necessary flexibility to assume the role of promoting innovation in vulnerable territories, proposing situations and creative solutions that are tested and systematized before being presented to the public power.

Keywords: Neighborhood Plan; urban requalification; urban governance.

The Cooperation Between the Public Agency and the University in Fighting Climate Change. The Work Plan between Suzano Municipality and FAU-Mackenzie

2024-01-24T15:22:58+00:00

This article aims to discuss the partial results of a research entitled “Referencial Design in Contemporaneity”, in the particular focus on the debate of the planning of the green area system that is being discussed in the Master Plan of the city of Suzano-SP. A “Cultural-Scientific Academic Cooperation Agreement” was formalized between these institutions to provide the exchange of information between the public agency team and the researchers of the university. This text describes the initial analysis of this work in progress considering the role of the different typologies of the green area system in fighting climate change. The discussion of the article is divided into two parts: first, the analysis of the articulation of reference cases between the cities of São Paulo and Suzano; secondly, the identification of the potential advances previously seen in Suzano’s Master Plan.

Keywords: Urban Policy; Master Plan; Green Area System.

URBAN PARKS SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT MODEL: Tools for a tool-kit based on a study of referents

2023-12-14T19:30:26+00:00

The National Urban Parks Policy (2021) seeks the development of green areas of more than 2 hectares in all the cities of Chile, while recognizing that the management and maintenance of urban parks is one of the main challenges. In order to define a methodology for improving the management and operation of parks and green areas, a case study was carried out aimed at identifying good international practices in sustainability models and management of Urban Parks. Based on this analysis, the methodology defines an "ideal model" and seeks to understand how gaps could be solved and efficient management achieved through the systematization of a catalog: institution, administration, financing and uses. This, together with the characterization of community needs and capacities, makes it possible to define a Tool-kit of instruments for the Sustainability and management of Urban Parks adapted to different municipal’s realities and scales of parks.

Keywords: Urban Parks, Sustainability, Green Infrastructure, Management

City and project among Europe and Latin America. London, Paris and Barcelona as part of the history of sanitation in Buenos Aires (1871-1923)

2024-01-24T15:15:37+00:00

In this article I will address the first European sanitation projects, identifying continuities and ruptures that laid the foundations of urban planning and the conformation of the sanitation system in Buenos Aires. The foundational sanitation projects in Buenos Aires (1871-1923) reflected the sanitary crises and technical solutions deployed in the great European capitals; a strategy observed by politicians and decision makers as an essential component of the modernizing movement of the city. I will thus inquire about analogies and relationships between London, Paris, Barcelona and Buenos Aires in the conception of their sanitation systems; questioning the technique in its interaction with the city, especially before what happened in the main European cities, marked by an unprecedented industrial movement and an unusual population growth that showed serious deficiencies in the habitat and sanitation conditions of the working masses, emerging deadly epidemics and the social pressure of sanitation as a solution.

Keywords: City and Project; Interaction between City and Sanitation; History of Sanitation; History of Buenos Aires.

PARTICIPATORY SOCIAL PROJECT: possible lessons from SAAL

2023-12-06T15:21:23+00:00

In Portugal, in the 1970s, the Local Outpatient Support Service (SAAL) constituted a progressive housing program, which instituted participatory democracy and a collaborative framework between the State, specialists and target populations, seeking to solve the urgent problem of homelessness. Focusing on three specific case studies [Távora: Prelada (Porto, 1975-1976), Hestnes Ferreira: Fonsecas e Calçada (Lisbon, 1974-1988) and Costa Cabral: Pego Longo (Queluz, 1975-1977)], possible reflections of the previous paths of these architects in their respective urban and housing project proposals. Basing the analysis on original material, deposited in various archives and specialized libraries, this article offers a first systematization of the collected information, promoting a methodology for analysing the relationship between research and the practice of architecture/urbanism, developed and experimented in Portugal. Finally, clues are offered for the recovery of these participatory social projects, as possible models to follow today.

Keywords: Housing; SAAL; Investigation; Sustainability; Urban Metabolism

GENTRIFICATION IN CIUDAD VIEJA. A quantitative approach to the process in the historic centre of Montevideo (2011-2019)

2023-12-06T15:00:28+00:00

In the last two decades, the historic center of Montevideo has been the subject of urban renewal policies. This
alarmed a certain part of its population, who claim that a gentrification process is taking place. This work
proposes to analyze this process through a quantitative methodology. It consists of the study of households
based on disaggregated statistical data in five variables: level of education, level of income, number of
members, type of housing tenure, and their relocations within the city. The case study is the Ciudad Vieja
neighborhood of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, between 2011 and 2019. The results suggest that this area
shows a high level of predisposition to be gentrified and that displacement is occurring there. However, a
traditional gentrification process is not being verified.

Keywords:
Gentrification, socio spatial dynamics, gentrifiability.
Thematic clusters:

Incidence of large-scale structures in the morphology of Quito Case of study: Quitumbe

2023-12-14T19:39:05+00:00

Quito presents several problems that affect the development of the city and its inhabitants, one of them is the presence of large structures that are inserted in the middle of the urban structure as hard elements that do not integrate into life. For this reason, the objective of this work is to determine the area of the city most affected by large structures through a multi-scale analysis, to propose improvement strategies that can be replicated. The analysis seeks to identify how these constructions affect the relationship between architecture, its environment, and the inhabitants. By determining Quitumbe as the potential area to intervene, an urban plan is proposed that seeks to generate neighborhood life, considering what exists and the memory of the place, through new urban dynamics based on human scale and people´s experience.

Keywords: large scale structures, industrial zone, urban barriers, Quito.

In search of identity. Appropriations by local inhabitants in four neighborhoods in the municipality of Loures

2024-02-05T18:18:41+00:00

This article provides an analysis and reflection on changes in urban space in municipal housing districts to identify relevant aspects of urban and architectural design that could be rethought, to guarantee more flexibility of use and the quality of life of residents. To achieve this objective, this study focuses on four neighbourhoods in the municipality of Loures, in the district of Lisbon. The main informal appropriations in the external public space and in the building exteriors (e.g. configurational and/or chromatic changes of the facades) were mapped through in situ analyses and debate sessions with inhabitants and representatives of the Municipality of Loures. This comparative study aims to analyse informal urban dynamics as a means for contributing to the requalification of social housing and to the well-being of inhabitants, considering socioeconomic, architectural, and landscape characteristics of each case under analysis.

Keywords: Municipal Affordable Neighborhoods, Appropriations, Informal, Loures.

DESIGNING A CITY WITH THE RIVER. Principles of urban design from the case of the Tunjuelo river in Bogotá

2024-01-24T15:27:28+00:00

Bogotá is the capital of the second most biodiverse country in the world. However, it presents situations of conflict between its watercourses and its urban environment, which leads to loss of biodiversity and increasing water pollution. The depletion of natural resources due to urban pressures is today one of the fundamental issues to be faced by urban planning. For this, an ecosystem perspective allows us to value urban rivers and their way of interacting with the city. The Tunjuelo River, coming from the Sumapaz Páramo, crosses the south of Bogotá. Its main conditions, exploitation, pollution and channeling, lead us to try to reconcile the relationship between the river and the city through a propositional cartography, which seeks to explain urban design principles derived from their interactions.

Keywords: Water urbanism, urban river, Páramo, Bogotá and Tunjuelo´s river

Territorial and gender inequalities in the eastern periphery of Montevideo. A feminist perspective on the phenomenon of self-segregated neighborhoods

2024-01-24T15:42:47+00:00

On the eastern periphery of Montevideo, there are three neighborhoods with private neighborhood characteristics: San Nicolás, Los Olivos and Parques. In addition, three more neighborhoods are under construction. These neighbourhoods, although by order of the Municipality of Montevideo cannot have access fences, they make up self-segregated spaces that deny the link with the city, implanted as "islands" in the territory with 24-hour security and surveillance. On the other hand, the lifestyle that is promoted is the traditional heteronormative family in which the woman is relegated to the home. This research proposes to study the growing and expanding phenomenon of self-segregated neighborhoods from a feminist perspective, with the aim of questioning and revealing the type of city that is built with these urbanizations and how this impacts the place, generating more territorial and gender inequalities.

Keywords: territorial inequalities, gender inequalities, feminist urbanism, self-segregated neighborhoods

AREAS INTERNAS: LA GESTIÓN COMO RECURSO DE INNOVACIÓN. Caso de estudio: Ostana, Italia

2024-02-05T18:08:49+00:00

In the internal areas there are important natural and cultural resources that can be activated or reactivated in an innovative way to produce changes in the place. The premise is that “public management” is an innovative resource that allows revitalizing internal areas based on new strategies. The objective of this article is to determine what elements are present in innovation in public management, for its application to other cases. The methodology used was a case study analyzed on the basis of a systemic model, designed from the conceptual framework of the research. The case study is Ostana, a town located in northern Italy, where the Mayor promoted the return of the inhabitants from a holistic vision. As results, the actions that allowed the innovation of Ostana are presented.

Keywords: Internal areas, innovation resources, public management.

UNDER THE SUN. Notes on the Vaz Ferreira’s School Parks

2024-01-25T15:59:50+00:00

This paper is part of a line of research exploring the link between architecture and philosophy during the period framed in Uruguay by the 1875 military uprising and the 1933 coup d’état. Within this framework, it approaches Carlos Vaz Ferreira´s project School Parks proposed in 1900 to subject it to a double analysis: the author´s socio-pedagogical ideology and its adopted versions after being taken by the architects of that time. It then bridges the Uruguayan philosopher’s intense crusade and the architectural culture of the time, focusing on a controversial challenge that affects the Carlos Real de Azua’s so-called «buffer society» of the time. In short, it tries to catch the mentioned project's theoretical clues and put them into action with the plural voice of architects.

Keywords: urban space, nature, public education, Carlos Vaz Ferreira

WORLD HERITAGE CITIES OF SPAIN Fifty years since the adoption of the world heritage convention.

2024-02-05T18:42:32+00:00

Last year 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO's general conference of November 16, 1972.This marked an important beginning for the preservation and enhancement of world heritage. After this emblematic period, it is time to take stock of what has been achieved and the challenges we have for the future. We have focused the study of what it has meant for the 15 Spanish cities that have been listed as World Heritage Sites in this period The recent covid 19 pandemic, climate change and the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine make it necessary to analyze the near future of world heritage and its future, in order not to create inequalities. In Spain it is one of the first four countries in the world with more cities and sites named World Heritage

Keywords: World heritage cities, collective heritage, conservation, future.

CONTRASTING THE BANALISATION OF TOURISM. Architectural, landscape and micro-urbanistic design of an accommodation facility in the Azores

2024-01-25T16:19:47+00:00

Following the pandemic, tourism dynamics resumed in a compulsive form in response to the physical and social segregation during the covid-19 period. Mass forms of tourism, which stifle and alter local balances, often lead to trivialising outcomes. Following the analysis of these phenomena and the choice of a reference context, a project was drawn up on an urban, landscape and architectural scale as a hypothesis of an alternative model for tourist use. The intention is to see local specificities reworked in a contemporary key, with a view to the inclusion of the local population, with a space that is articulated between public and private, guaranteeing the permeability of the lot. Integration that also takes place from an ecosystem perspective, with agricultural and landscape techniques that attempt to integrate with the territorial dimension of the Azores, on the island of São Miguel.

Keywords: trivialising tourism, landscape, micro-urbanism, architecture

Feminist Urban Planning and popular urban projects. Three compared cases in Argentina and Chile

2024-02-06T14:40:51+00:00

The multisectoral approach of Feminist Urbanism has managed to promote new forms of intervention in the design and management of the city, deploying numerous Good Practices in various territories. Under this premise, this work proposes a comparative analysis of three cases of urban projects for the popular habitat in Chile and Argentina: the Intercultural Neighborhood "Community of change", (2011 - 2016) in San Martín de los Andes; the “Alto Comedero” Neighborhood (2003 - 2014) in San Salvador de Jujuy, and the “Maestranza” Neighborhood (2020 - 2022) in Central Station, Santiago de Chile.

The diagnosis of the roles played by the people involved, the urban and building typologies carried out, and the forms of organization used, aimed at verifying the degree of associativity of each case with respect to the theoretical ideas of Feminism within the urban discipline. We worked from the individual signing of each case through 6 key categories (Context, Objective, Actors, Strategy, Impact, and Traits of Feminist Urbanism in the case).

Keywords: Feminist Urbanism, popular habitat, urban project, Argentina, Chile.

CYBER-PHYSICAL DEVICES IN URBAN DESIGN: Towards the improvement of liveability in public space

2024-01-30T18:04:53+00:00

Cyber-physical devices are the backbone of a postdigital society in which social, virtual and real spaces are seamlessly integrated by ubiquitous computing and networking. Holistic approaches to urban dynamics cannot minimize the interplay between these spaces and the processes of such entanglement by interfacing augmented urban devices, and the societal pressing challenges of sustainability. The literature review and the production of an original case studies Atlas allowed to: (i) identify major trends on devices’ design and deployment strategies, which, alongside a workshop, fed the design guidelines of a multidisciplinary R&D Project ́s use case demonstrator; (ii) suggest the rising of new (or enhanced) types of urban devices that are the expression of sustainability concerns; and (iii) ascertain three main framing concepts (digital twin, interface and awareness) in light of what seems to be a necessary process of reviewing established urban design theories given a novel highly digitally mediated (virtual) reality.

Keywords: augmented public space; urban cyber-physical devices; urban design; sustainability.

THE ROLE OF METROPOLITAN GREEN STRUCTURES. Evolution of the Planning of Metropolitan Santiago between the years 1960-2006

2024-02-07T13:26:11+00:00

The planning of the Metropolitan area of Santiago is a perfect example of how the role of green structures can shape a territorial area. Between the years 1960 and 1994, the constitution of the communes of Santiago are involved in endless regulatory changes that are revealed throughout the territory. It is then recognized that the 1960 Santiago Intercommunal Regulatory Plan (PRIS) is the great promoter of intercommunal territorial planning. Proposing concepts of "Decentralization of activities and services" and planning strategies such as "Control of the growth of cities", all this, in a changing political environment, a Chile at the gates of a Dictatorship. On the other hand, a somewhat contradictory new concept brings the Metropolitan Regulatory Plan of Santiago (PRMS) 1994, seeks in the arrival of Democracy in Chile, promote the growth of communes, establishing "large conurbations" of rings and extension arms urban. The document presents and analyzes the main proposals regarding the green areas of these plans, in addition to their modifications, evolution and changes in the territory.

Keywords: green structure, urban planning, metropolitan area.

The housing crisis and housing policies. Coincidences and divergences between Chile and Spain

2024-01-30T18:38:55+00:00

The current housing crisis is part of a global real estate financial process. Chile has been one of the first countries to implement decisive privatization policies in the housing sector, while Spain is one of the world leaders in the impact of the financialization of housing. The article analyzes to what extent the housing policies implemented by the State have contributed to promoting the current housing crisis and have promoted socio-spatial (in)justice, pointing out the coincidences and divergences between both countries. An analytical framework based on Nancy Fraser's (2008) critical theory of social justice has been developed and applied to both cases. After the application, it can be concluded that the dictatorial experiences, the incentive of home ownership and the appropriation of the housing sector by the financial sector and private agents, show a certain parallelism in the process of both countries.

Keywords: Right to housing, housing policy, public administration.

REVIVING AN OLD CPD BY INTRODUCING A MASS RAPID TRANSIT STATION. A CASE FROM DHAKA

2024-01-31T14:11:14+00:00

Bangladesh, once considered the Least Developed Country (LDC), became elevated to lower-middle income status in 2015. Dhaka is the capital of the country and central economic hub, ranked the sixth most populous city in the World, with a density of 23,234 people per square kilometer (Dhaka, Tribune, 2022). An influx of migrant people from different districts makes Dhaka a sprawling urban junction. Traffic congestion, air pollution, fire incidents, and other urban chaos are unbearable daily facts. Studies by Dhaka Urban Transport Project (DUTP) identified that adaptation of Transport Oriented Develop is essential to increase accessibility and to offer redevelopment opportunities around the station node. Mass Rapid Transit, one of the choices of TOD, was first conceived in 2005 in the Strategic Transport Plan for Dhaka, and the construction started in 2012. The initial route, MRT-6, will connect several residential and Central Business Districts areas like Motizeel. However, due to unmanaged traffic and unplanned mixed-used development, once vibrant CBD has lost its potential for commercial activities. This research will investigate the choice of Rail-based MRT for Dhaka and the additional improvement of spatial attributes (density, land use diversity, and pedestrian-friendly design) that will contribute to reviving the study station at Motizeel.

Keywords: TOD, Urban form, Mass Rapid Transport (MRT), Pedestrian

[Un]woven ecologies. A discourse on relationship

2024-01-24T15:32:45+00:00

This article reflects on characters, interactions and conflicts between multiple practices of spatial production in the foothills of the Ecuadorian Amazon, making operational some concepts elaborated within 'Decolonial Thought', particularly the concept of 'colonial difference'. The case study investigated is the Tena Canton, Napo province, a territory marked by socioeconomic and environmental inequalities and even broader political divergences. The hypothesis supported here is that, by making visible the forms and logics of the relationship between the different social groups that are established from the bodies-knowledge, it is possible to imagine territorial planning strategies in search of new spaces, economies and styles of settlement.

Keywords: Amazon decolonial urbanism, Relational urbanism, Chakra kichwa

Governance and Participation in Brazil: the impact of Federal Decree 9,759/2019 on urban policies

2024-02-01T16:08:06+00:00

Collegiate bodies and councils are a way for public management to democratize the elaboration of its policies, making them more representative of segments of the population. A bibliographic review will be carried out on the themes of governance, Brazilian federalism and participation. A review of the Brazilian urban legislation pertinent to these concepts will also be made. This article is structured in four sections. The first deals with the theoretical framework on the subject of governance, conceptually, and its approach in the Brazilian context. The second section, a normative framework after the Federal Constitution, which highlights the outline of governance in relation to social participation. The third section, on the federal decree under analysis and in the fourth section, the impact of that decree on Brazilian urban policies. Therefore, the proposed debate is to what extent the dismantling of instances of popular participation, in the federal government's management from 2019 to 2022, through the publication of Decree No. 9,759 in 2019, affected Brazilian urban public policies.

Keywords: Governance, social participation, Brazilian urban policies, Federal Decree 9759/2019.

Healthy cities and green infrastructure. Strategic design of ecological corridor system in Piura, Peru

2024-01-25T16:33:51+00:00

Among the most important features that cities present to be considered as "healthy", the following can be mentioned: one can easily walk long distances, the natural environment is present and the public space functions as a meeting place for all (Pozo and Higueras, 2020). The current hypothesis focuses on verifying the scope of design within the relationship between urban design and health, proposing that the Peruvian city of Piura (707,318 inhabitants, INEI, 2017) can benefit from this relationship, due to the natural potential of its territory, which holds a large percentage of dry Peruvian forest in addition to the existence of the Piura River. A strategic methodology is developed for the creation of green infrastructure, considering both the characteristics of its territory and its strengths, as well as local challenges. A reflection on the possibility of replicating this methodology to other cities with similar characteristics is presented as part of the conclusion.

Keywords: Healthy city, green infrastructure corridor, strategic urban design, Piura (Peru)

THE PLANNED CITY AND ITS SOCIO-SPATIAL INEQUALITY. What frustrates urban integration in today's city?

2024-02-05T18:30:53+00:00

Urban development is constantly evidencing contradictions: the city is, in essence, a place of conflict. This scenario puts democracies in tension with the public function exercised through urban planning, with effects on the distribution of public goods and services and the production of urban space. Is it possible to think of urban planning for the achievement of a just city in the current political-economic context? An answer is explored, based on an analytical framework of plans in communes with greater socio-economic vulnerability, from a historical perspective with different visions of integrated urban law in Chile. Thus, the instrumental content is contrasted in conceptual terms with the planning process. It concludes in a growing hybridism of practices, together with an internal contradiction between the purposes of a spatial planning model and the increasingly protagonist participatory and deliberative processes.

Keywords: socio-spatial inequalities, planning process, just city.

“INLAND AREAS” AND INTEGRATION POLICIES Starting again from “the pulp and the bone”

2024-01-25T16:13:35+00:00

Following a long process of modernization - of which the urban systems and the plains have been the nuclei - the territories on the margins of development are beginning to be the subject of renewed widespread interest today. Nonetheless, looking at and reflecting on this space does not mean focusing attention exclusively on it, however. It is not a matter of pitting marginal territories against those of modernity and development; rather, it is a matter of considering these parts of the territory, present in every country, in relation to each other. It is about reversing the dominant narrative, the one oriented by a discriminatory logic that divides the territory into areas that deserve more and others that deserve less. It is about reversing the gaze, through the acquisition of an awareness on the part of communities that the status of marginality does not represent a local and isolated condition, but instead concerns a significant part of European regional contexts.

Keywords: territorial differential, intra-regional gap, metaphor of “the pulp and the bone”, systemic territorial approach.

MULTILEVEL RIVERS FOR CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACES From research to design solutions

2024-02-06T14:28:46+00:00

The paper is part of the debate and experimentation on architectural and urban design resilient to climate change and investigates the possibilities of reusing riverbeds in important cities in the southern Mediterranean and Middle East areas such as Genoa, Malaga and Isfahan.

These riverbeds, due to climate change and a series of hydraulic works, are today characterized by a strong variability of the water level and abandonment, even if they represent central areas of the urban structure available to host contemporary public spaces of cities through innovative design solutions.

In this perspective, the paper contributes to the debate with a review of theoretical references and recent international practices and a comparison of three selected case studies (Bisagno-Genoa, Guadalmedina-Malaga, Zayanderud-Isfahan) that have been the scope of didactic design experimentations in the framework of international workshops promoted by Sapienza University in collaboration with other Universities.

Keywords: water, multilevel-river, public space, urban regeneration.

DEVELOPMENT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY WITHIN THE URBAN TERRITORY OF QUITO. Study case: La Tola, La Tola Baja, La Loma y San Marcos.

2024-01-30T17:50:37+00:00

The food supply in Quito is part of a big urban system that obtain its resources from abroad the city and produces waste in a linear and unsustainable form. Marketplaces, supermarkets and shopping centers, regardless of providing food and other relatives services, are often rule by a pattern that foster massive consumption, pollution, the increase of distribution chains and waste. Based on the hypothesis that in Quito exists auspicious areas for the development of food sovereignty, the main objective of this investigation, is to seek for zones inside the consolidated urban area, that are underserved of a marketplace or shopping center within a 15-minute walking radius, through a mapping analysis made in 2020. The research recognizes La Loma, La Tola, La Tola Baja and san Marcos as critical and suitable neighborhoods for the planification of sustainable models based on local production and the integration of green area into the city, putting forward a Mass Plan that take to advantages of the conditions of the territory.

Keywords: Food sovereignty, agricultural landscape, Quito, La Tola, food supply, sustainable production.

ARCHITECTURES OF CARE AS COMMON GOOD. Urban-spatial and social-political configurations of care in publicly produced collective housing in Uruguay

2024-02-06T14:59:09+00:00

This research proposes the study of the space of care in collective public housing in Uruguay, conceiving care as a common good and integrating the perspective of feminist urbanism as an epistemological framework of approach. It starts from the recognition of the collective scale for the approach to care, seeking to transcend the dichotomies between the individual private and the collective public, in the conjunction of spheres (Muxi, 2018) that implies the material and symbolic reproduction of social life (Gutiérrez, 2020). This article reports on an ongoing doctoral research process that proposes within its objectives to contribute to the ways of thinking and projecting in the collective housing scale from this perspective, through the identification and generation of new tools for the design, planning and management of living space, as well as new parameters for the articulation of public policies in housing, habitat and care.

Keywords: Collective public housing, cooperativism, commons and care

ROUGH OROGRAPHY. The Urban Project Between History and Modernity

2024-01-30T18:27:55+00:00

Understanding how urban space is constructed in contemporary times in relation to morphology, showing its principles and rules through strategies and projects carried out in recent decades is the objective of the research that focuses on what we consider the most interesting case among European cities: Lisbon. The Castle Hill, Santa Caterina Hill, Baixa, and the Tagus River estuary make up the topographical framework of the research. Starting from the construction of the first Arab settlements along the Castle Hill, passing through the convents and industries along the river banks, the eighteenth-century city built after a terrible earthquake and the modern era Chiado show the special sensitivity of Portuguese architects to geography in the construction of the city. It is hypothesized that topography is a fundamental component of urban design and construction.

Keywords: Urban Morphology, Lisbon, Topography, City and Design. Themes: Urban Space, Continuity, and Stratification.

SHAPED BY WATER: The lexicon of built elements as a cause of changing water in the case of Dharavi and Kanpur

2024-01-31T14:01:55+00:00

Water plays a lead role in shaping urban waterfront territories. They are generally located in the central part of the cities and are burdened with environmental challenges. Climate change is expected to increase extreme weather events with a larger volume of change in water. Sea level rise, high tides, storms, and floods enhance the vulnerability of such areas along the water. Waterfront territories are more vulnerable to changing water as they occupy the low-lying marshy land. How humans respond to flooding is one of the most challenging questions. The response involves using various built elements embedded in the urban morphology of waterfront territories. The objective of the paper is to identify, systematize and categorize the built elements that exist as a cause of changing water in urban waterfront territories, in the case of Kanpur riverine area and Dharavi, Mumbai. The methodology, exploratory and investigative in character, involve assessment by direct observations and interpretation from the sites, collected images and literature review from the previous published research. The cases from two different territories; formal and informal, enable findings and lessons that contribute to research into the lexicon of built elements necessary for addressing floods.

Keywords: Adaptation; Floods; Built elements; Urban morphology

CULTURAS E CIDADE: TEORIA E PROJETO. Formas outras de se constituir a ação e o conteúdo projetual

2024-01-24T15:46:00+00:00

Between the times of life and the urban spaces (Lefebvre, 2009) emerges the invention of the project as an expression of resistance, claims and other possibilities of appropriation of time, space and desire. The project, thus thought, reaffirms the importance of alterity, of collective subjects and of the event as horizons of imagination. In Brazil, the construction through form - architecture and cities - resides, historically, in the field of representations: what we see in our cities is segregation, inequality, absence of public spaces for life. How to socially build a project culture that considers processes of recognition, appropriation, desires, universalization of rights highlighting its emancipatory power?

We seek an approach to the ways of living the space, through daily life, through the construction of practices, through the experiences of cultural collectives and civil society organizations, considering the multiplicity of actors, domination, oppression and resistance that configure the contemporary world.

Keywords: project, daily life, collective subject, urban space

DIFFUSE REGIONAL SCENARIO AND SOCIO-TERRITORIAL SEGREGATION. The case of Valparaiso

2024-02-05T18:12:35+00:00

The objective of this work is to demonstrate the evolution of the urban diffusion of Valparaíso, in a time frame of 200 years, a process that has become a scenario of socio-territorial segregation, fostered by the economic liberalization policies of the last 50 years. In addition, it has an intrinsic objective in its analysis structure, which is to use the systemic approach of Luis Ainstein, which consists of three key moments, as an attractive central area, mainly due to the port and its activity, later being the temporary financial center of the new country, which generates a process of massive urbanization, which we characterize in two sub-stages due to the type of development policies, exogenous growth, which is a primary economic policy-export of minerals, which attracts a large number of immigrants, This generates an economic boom, which ends with the creation of synthetic saltpeter and the construction of the Panama Canal, which leaves the port off the commercial routes, and then, at this same stage, we characterize endogenous growth, marked by the period of industrialization and rural-city migration in the middle of the 20th century. Finally, this work provides the economic framework from 1973 to the current period, which inserts this city, already converted into a metropolitan area in the context of global economy, at the cost of a shocking process of economic liberalization, deepened in the years of democracy, which It results in a territory directed by the market rather than by planning, evidencing a segmented and discontinuous urbanization in its metropolitan area..

Keywords: Urban Diffusion, metropolitan area, Latin American.

AIR QUALITY AND HEALTHY CITIES. Urban air quality improvement plans in Lima and Madrid

2024-01-25T16:02:52+00:00

Lima and Madrid present two different urban-territorial realities, however, both capitals have in recent years adopted urban development plans with a focus on improving air quality. The research analyses the plans of both cities (Plan A for Madrid; Plan Met 2040 and the Action Plan for Lima) with the intention of verifying whether both meet the requirements established in 2021 by the WHO Global Guidelines on Air Quality. The difference between the two cities also generates different approaches to air pollution: while Madrid concentrates its measures on improving sustainable roads and reducing the number of private vehicles in some areas of the city, Lima focuses on regulating vehicle emissions and improving fuel quality.

Keywords: healthy city, air quality, atmospheric pollution, urban planning.

STREET MARKETS AS PLACES OF MEMORY. A case study of the city of Rio Claro – SP

2024-02-06T14:17:14+00:00

The research seeks to understand the conditions of street markets in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in particular, based on the study of three Streets Markets that regularly take place in the municipality of Rio Claro and are located in the Metropolitan Region of Piracicaba. A conceptual discussion is proposed on the nature and role of street commerce in the daily life of the inhabitants, as places of memory and identity. It is proposed to study them in different temporalities, as a manifestation of a tradition of certain work and production relations that bring together the rural and the urban, with a strong appeal to local and family horticultural production. Despite globalization, new means of production and marketing technologies, street markets remain resilient, adapting to new demands. The applied methodology was historical-critical, seeking to understand the ancestral and current attributes of the fairs, trying to trace its trajectory as an event, both from the socioeconomic point of view, as well as the cultural and territorial one.

Keywords: Street Markets, Production Landscapes, Public Area, Sites of Memory.

MONTEVIDEO SEMINARS (1998-2017). Interface and innovation in urban planning

2024-01-25T16:22:07+00:00

Since the 1990s, the debate between “planning” and “project” deepened in Uruguay at the same time that a new urban culture was taking shape. Vectors of this process were the Municipality of Montevideo (in decentralization, strategic planning, land planning and heritage), the National Directorate of Land Planning and university contributions. Within this framework, the “Montevideo Seminars-Urban Project Workshops” (1998-2017) constituted a space for liaison and innovation in urban thought and practice, linking the School of Architecture with the Town Hall of Montevideo. They relied on the prestige of guests: global architects, teachers, from workshops, conferences, debates and jurys, who contributed to this innovation, resulting in the experience in an urban project laboratory from an original relationship between academia and state, and generating critical reflection about the large-scale project. This research aims to reveal the keys to this successful experience and its impact on practices.

Keywords: Urban Project, Montevideo Workshops, Montevideo, Uruguay

SDMs, A TOOL FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN CITIES Case Study: Ponte Verde de Queluz (Sintra, Portugal)

2024-02-06T14:47:37+00:00

This study explores the applicability of species distribution models (SDMs) in land use planning through the Ponte Verde de Queluz project, Sintra (Portugal), which proposes the use of 17 native plant species to promote ecological continuity. Among these species is Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch, the focus of this scientific article. The resulting cartography highlights areas that could be recognized as climate refugia for retention and displacement under two climate change scenarios (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5). In conclusion, this study provides a replicable and scalable methodology, useful and easy to understand for the conservation and restoration of biodiversity in cities, with important practical implications for land use planning and urban management in identifying and optimizing urban climate refugia and establishing urban climate corridors.

Keywords: species distribution, Cephalanthera longifolia, climate change, ecological restoration

Convergent Urbanism: Urban life, human landscape

2024-01-30T18:09:28+00:00

The social construction of public space has become important since the mid-20th century. Several interdisciplinary scenarios have been used to argue the physical and social destruction of cities around the world as a result of traditional urbanization models inspired by capitalism. The model is challenged and methods for humanizing the city are suggested. This article presents some reflections that come from the doctoral research project of the same name, which examines new social action-production strategies of public spaces at the microscale, including tactical urbanism, its mode of operation, the socio-spatial variables it produces, and the model's scalability. To reinforce the idealistic foundations of the urban movements that promote these modern collaborative practices, a bibliographic review of several influential classic theorists is performed. Two case studies are presented in the South American context (geographical segment of the research), in which the tools and elements of tactical interventions are evaluated and some of the conclusions that have been defined in the PhD work are acknowledged.

Keywords: tactical urbanism, convergent urbanism, human scale, right to the city.

A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. Measuring children’s right to the city through urban design.

2024-02-07T13:29:20+00:00

Today public spaces have become fragile environments highlighting socio-spatial inequalities. This PhD research intends to investigate whether it is possible to define more inclusive urban programs, considering children as determinants of inclusive urban design. It will do so by measuring children’s right to the city and systematising an urban toolkit as a child participation assessment tool to make knowledge reproducible and adaptable. PAR - participatory action research - is the selected methodology. It was developed through implementing urban diagnostic workshops in two social housing neighbourhoods in Porto, Portugal, and through analysing three successful international policy programs that share common values and guidelines in Southern Europe. The research's scientific merit is to understand how to promote equitable, inclusive and caring neighbourhoods through urban and participatory design that enables residents to co-create alternatives targeted to children in contexts of social exclusion. In doing so, making it inclusive to all.

Keywords: participatory action research, children’s rights, public spaces, urban policies.

An infrastructural street-market. Feira do Relógio in Lisbon

2024-01-30T18:41:43+00:00

Feira do Relógio on Avenida de Santo Condestável in Lisbon, is a "feira de levante" that is set up and dismantled every Sunday on the road. The road for cars becomes pedestrian, and is revealed as a support contrasted with the fabrics, poles and removable tables that house goods on the asphalt. This work investigates the relationship between the specific conditioning factors of the context and the generative operatives of the case from its varied formalizations. The research focuses on the relationship between the detail of the objects and their production of other bodies, at other scales. Feira do Relógio is read as a street-market, in which its ephemeral condition of the program produces a rapid transformation: from fast lane to pedestrian street. This case study has an infrastructural component, capable of absorbing contingencies, the result of the dynamics of its materialization and design.

Keywords: infrastructure, street-market, Lisboa, Feira do Relógio

RESETTLEMENT HOUSING IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA. Manuel Vicente as case study within East Asian urban ecosystems

2024-02-01T15:52:03+00:00

The present paper proposes to settle comprehensive understanding about first's statements of architectural modernity established in Macau.

The research line intends to present the historical modern framework of the region and classify a set of inaugural resettlement housing projects designed by Architect Manuel Vicente during the 1960s/1970s. The achievement of such goals is to be developed through a comparative analysis between the urban background of the 20th century, and the chosen case studies, in order to derives, in one hand, an amplitude equation of the theoretical matrix adopted; and in the other hand, to identify the variations between solutions of housing typologies, collective spaces, spatial distributions and technical systems. This classification needs to consider contextual factors, concentrating not only in the understanding of the proposed case studies, but also on problematics and potentialities, in order to recognize their role in the generational urban grow that characterized the Pearl River Delta.

Keywords: Architectural Heritage, Modern Architecture, Urbanism, Macau.

MARGINALITY AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES. The value of urban scraps to solve urban, social and ecological issues

2024-01-24T15:37:38+00:00

Abandoned spaces and territories surrounding both cities and settlement systems of metropolitan areas, can play an important and central role in regeneration processes from the urban, social and ecological points of view. Starting from the recognition of the value and role that urban margins and “scraps” can assume in an both social and environmental key, it is possible to propose alternative approaches and intervention practices to the more established ones in order to reduce the growing social divide in urban field and counteract the phenomena of spatially based social segregation.

In the case study of Lisbon, it was possible to highlight, through empirical social research, a correlation between morphological margins, infrastructural lines and places of urban and social disease. Their capillary diffusion allows to design a lattice of public spaces that, alongside the existing system of squares and parks, is of considerable support for human and ecological connection and integration.

Keywords: Social segregation, marginality, public space, holistic and multi-scalar approach.

EXPLORING LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS INTO SPATIAL PLANNING INDICATORS: TURKEY. Developing a guideline of climate change adaptation for local spatial planning system

2024-01-25T15:55:49+00:00

Spatial planning (SP) plays a pivotal role in shaping urban and rural areas, encompassing interventions such as development, conservation, and spatial configuration, all of which significantly influence climate change adaptation (CCA) efforts. The incorporation of CCA policies within municipal SP has gained increasing importance in addressing the challenges posed by climate change impacts. This study aims to examine the interplay between CCA policies and municipal SP in Turkey. It proposes an assessment of selected cities representing diverse climate regions within Turkey at the local scale. The primary objectives encompass evaluating the current state of the CCA-SP relationship through a causal-comparative approach, considering assessment criteria derived from a comprehensive literature review, and formulating region-specific policies. Noteworthy advancements in local-level climate change mitigation policies are underscored, while concurrently identifying significant gaps in climate change adaptation, particularly concerning the built/green environment and governance/participation. The findings will enhance the integration of CCA policies into forthcoming spatial planning endeavors within Turkey.

Keywords: climate change adaptation (CCA), spatial planning (SP), local spatial planning (L-SP), Turkey.

Serra do Itaqueri (São Paulo, Brazil): From a tourist circuit to the historical landscape of production

2024-02-05T18:34:01+00:00

The research proposes to study the transformations that have occurred in a group of cities that are part of the “Circuito da Serra do Itaqueri”, since its creation, using as an articulating vector of reading the railway line of the Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro, implemented in 1868 to the present day. It seeks to analyze the relationship between heritage, in particular, the railway industry and tourism and its effects on the territory and human relations, as well as the effectiveness of tourist planning actions and local policies for cultural preservation. The methodology will be qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and empirical. The methodology will be qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and empirical. As a result, it is expected to contribute to the improvement of methodologies for reading and apprehending the territories studied, based on the cultural assets recognized by the inhabitants and the framing of this set as a historical landscape of production, in addition to proposing a reflection on the importance of the cultural component in future cultural-tourism planning policies.

Keywords: Historical Landscape of production, tourist circuit, railway, heritage.

The regeneration of Mouraria. An innovative systemic, strategic and participatory approach to the co-working of urban space

2024-01-25T16:17:33+00:00

Between 2011 and 2014, a process of urban and social regeneration took place in the historic neighborhood of Mouraria in Lisbon. This initiative embraced an interdisciplinary, systemic, participatory, and experimental approach. The regenerative process was guided by strategic choices, such as the centrality of public space, the integration of physical and social dimensions, and the involvement of local communities. Through a widespread, bottom-up, and place-based action, developed upon a few clear and simple strategic lines, extensive results were achieved. This approach overturned the intervention paradigm on existing structures, combining municipal and local interests and including residents in the co-elaboration of the urban and social space. This article aims to provide an overview by examining population engagement strategies, the key actors through which various forms of participation were activated, the new roles adopted by planning and architecture, and the possibilities for preserving sociocultural heritage in urban regeneration.

Keywords: Urban regeneration, innovative approach, public space, participation.

ERASE AND FORGET Rivers and landscapes as cultural memory of Fortaleza, Brazil

2024-02-06T14:37:00+00:00

Territories have been gradually altered during the processes that characterize Brazilian urban development. We are especially concerned about bodies of water that commonly suffers constant aggressions overtime in order to be erased and not recognized as part of the city. Removed from the landscape, they are also lost in collective memories. Therefore, the present work aims to reflect about urban processes that significantly alter cities and endanger the environmental and cultural balance that gives so much meaning to the existence of cities themselves. The research focus on the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, analysing one of the aspects of its urban evolution: the presence of watercourses, from 1945 cartography,correlating it with current satellite photos. The analysis shows the way in which rivers and creeks are considered in the thinking logic of development in recent decades, making observations about the risk of erasing the city's water resources from the local collective memory.

Keywords: urban evolution, territorial studies, watercourses, Fortaleza.

Appropriate Housing for an Autonomous Community Social Self-Management of Habitat in an Indigenous Biocultural Context

2024-01-30T17:55:48+00:00

The article presents a proposal for social management of housing in autonomous indigenous communities, in line with the right to adequate housing established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. The idea is for the inhabitants of these communities to identify their needs and generate their own strategy to achieve a better quality of life from their bio-cultural context and spatial experience. A self-management approach to habitat and a mixed methodology, both qualitative and quantitative, is proposed for group recognition, socio-spatial analysis, diagnosis, and definition of self-management strategies. The analysis will be carried out in the Community of San Francisco Pichátaro, in the municipality of Tingambato Michoacán, where a consolidated social and political organization and strongly rooted cultural identity values are observed. It is expected that the research results will allow for the development of solid proposals to improve and advance housing in autonomous communities, in coherence with cultural, environmental, and productive principles, promoting the construction of affordable, fair, and sustainable habitat scenarios.

Keywords: Adequate Housing, Biocultural, Social Self-Management, Habitat

RESCALANTS For a project of architecture-urbanism after the Metropolis

2024-02-07T13:22:55+00:00

This article introduces the foundations and first steps of the PhD project Rescalants: Architecture-urbanism after the Metropolis. This project focuses on a) the conditions of contemporary, multi-scalar metropolization processes, and b) the need to provide new project strategies able to aptly operate among these conditions. Concerning the first focus, the project will indagate the contemporary key, operable metropolitan conceptual dimensions assuming a unified work field between architecture and urbanism. Regarding the second one, it will generate new design instruments of form/space, Rescalants, able to operate among such conditions and dimensions consciously. The project adopts the case study of Buenos Aires, a universal paradigm of grid
urbanization now immersed in a particular postmetropolitan condition.

Keywords: Urbanism, Form, Metropolis

THE DISCOVERY OF THE TOLFA MINES AND THE REORGANISATION OF TERRITORY AND OF THE FINANCIAL FLOWS

2024-01-30T18:33:08+00:00

This paper will analyse the characteristics and relationship between market dynamics, financial flows, geography and urban space throughout the 15th century and into the 16th after the discovering of the Tolfa mines. These relationships will be strengthened and justified by the account of several important merchants and banker families that animated the Italian and international landscape during this period. Siena and its environs will be addressed first. By the 13th century, Siena had already evolved into the centre of operations for large business corporations whose activities expanded out internationally. These included the Bonsignori, Salimbeni, Tolomei and Piccolomini families. They partnered with the Roman Curia, fairs of Champagne, and merchant circuits of England, Languedoc, Flanders and western Germany in their financial operations. Europe’s economic geography changed. Business interests shifted to the financial and commercial centres of Bruges, London, Lisbon, Seville.

Palabras clave: Tolfa mines, Siena, Roma, Renaissance

The Urbanistic of Lucio Costa in the Modern Review Analysis of the Barra da Tijuca Master Plan

2024-01-31T14:08:30+00:00

The Pilot Plan for the urbanization of Barra da Tijuca, Pontal de Sernambetiba and Jacarepaguá, carried out by Lúcio Costa in 1969, was elaborated in a context of revision of the modern movement. From the 1950s, the new urban methodologies that emerged from the criticism of modern practices emphasized the consideration of the existing fabric, the value of environmental and topographical pre-existences, vernacular architecture and integration with the traditional city. The objective of this article is to deepen the understanding and reflect on the urban planning of the Pilot Plan of Barra da Tijuca within the context of the review of the modern movement to understand how the issues occurred in the face of the formal, functional and environmental aspects discussed in this context. The issues analyzed include integration with the local landscape, the particularities of urban morphology, the polynuclear city and the control of future urban dynamics.

Keywords: Barra da Tijuca’s Pilot Plan, Lucio Costa, Modern, Review of the Modern.

The assumptions of the public space in the neighborhood of Malagueira. Álvaro Siza’s contribution to the city design

2024-02-01T16:04:32+00:00

The communication focuses on the development of advanced research, inserted in the PhD program in Architecture. The aim is to present the chosen line of research and discuss its relevance. The research focuses on the study of public space in the work of Álvaro Siza, with a particular approach to the public space of Bairro da Malagueira, in Évora. The initial plan for the neighborhood was designed and monitored by the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira since 1977 and emerged as a response to the need for housing at the time. The urban project began as the design of a Detailed Plan and evolved into the design of houses, public facilities to support the neighborhood, commercial spaces and public space. The context in which this project was developed, and its characteristics indicate positive differences, in terms of public space, in relation to projects developed locally and even internationally, which motivates this investigation.

Keywords: Álvaro Siza; Malagueira; public space; influences

Governance and Participation in Brazil: the impact of Federal Decree 9,759/2019 on urban policies

2024-01-24T15:52:52+00:00

Keywords: Governance, social participation, Brazilian urban policies, Federal Decree 9759/2019.

TYPOLOGICAL STUDY OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES OF SEMNAN CITY

2024-01-25T16:05:53+00:00

In Semnan, there are several valuable historic buildings that, despite their diversity and innovative nature, have a standard and unbreakable identity. With their erosion and degradation, their architecture and construction are rapidly being destroyed and forgotten. Therefore, a multifaceted study of these buildings is essential to recognize the patterns of building homes as the primary focus of development, relying on valuable samples mostly dating back to the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties. In this research, forty historic houses in Semnan have been studied and analyzed in terms of climate, culture, geometry, form, spatial communication, structure, and all architectural elements that are the basis of the formation of the patterns of these houses. It was realized that architectural designs and constructions of these houses had undergone fundamental changes over time based on changing social conditions and habits of life. Traditional houses were studied in three specified periods, including before the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, from the power of Naser al-Din Shah to the early reign, and Pahlavi. By reviewing all the details of historical houses and categorizing them we will achieve a guideline for providing conservation and restoration projects in the historical context of Semnan.

Keywords: Urban fabric, historical houses, typology, Iranian Architecture, cultural heritage

AIR QUALITY, HEALTH AND THE CITY: THE CASE OF SKOPJE

2024-02-06T14:20:56+00:00

Air pollution is a major global environmental concern that has significant impacts on public health. With increasing urbanization, cities are an appropriate unit for the analysis of this issue. Investigating the correlation between air quality, respiratory diseases, and urban parameters in five micro-locations in the case of Skopje the study finds that air quality is influenced by a variety of factors including urban parameters, land use, types of heating systems, and proximity to the burning of stubble and use of harmful fuels. To address the issue of air pollution in Skopje, the study recommends implementing measures such as promoting the use of open block typologies in urban planning, encouraging the use of sustainable heating systems, implementing stricter regulations on industrial activities, increasing the use of green spaces, and reducing the built footprint. Overall, addressing air pollution in Skopje requires a comprehensive approach that considers individual and structural factors.

Keywords: air quality, health, urban morphology

THREE CRITICAL MOMENTS OF THE URBAN PROJECT IN CHILE. City and Architecture, in the 20th century

2024-01-25T16:24:50+00:00

The paper presents only partially the development of more extensive research that aims to describe, characterize, and interpret the relationship between modern architecture and the city through the category of the urban project in Chile between 1930 and 1980. It intends to Identify and characterize the relationship between architecture and urban planning, as well as the correspondences between the instruments of planning and those of architecture present in the category of urban project, which were oriented to the development of Chilean cities.
The urban project in Chile had at least three critical moments of definition: the first between 1929 and 1940, the second between 1940 and 1960, and the third between 1960 and 1979. The paper aims to show, through a critical historical reading, the institutional conditions, the main arguments, and the paradigmatic cases in the search for relations or articulations between the idea of the plan and the urban project.

Keywords: urban design, urban plans, urban instruments, Chile

Metropolization in the coast territory: A spatial analysis on the axis Itajaí-Florianópolis-SC

2024-02-06T14:51:55+00:00

The state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, has its largest urbanization on the Atlantic slope, consisting of independent river basins that flow to the coast. The development of relatively close cities and complementary economic activities consolidated a multipolarized urban network. In this context, the Itajaí-Florianópolis axis has witnessed an accelerated demographic growth, due to the various economic activities then present (industry, commerce, services, logistics, etc.) which are added to the tourist activities of the last decades. Based on these questions, the article carried out a spatial analysis of this area, from a historical perspective of urban growth in the coastal territory of Santa Catarina. It sought to understand how the pre-existing urban fabric is articulated with recent urban structures, originated from a model of tourism urbanization. The analyzes showed that the Itajaí-Florianópolis axis presents a movement towards metropolization along the main highway that connects the Santa Catarina urban network, the BR-101.

Keywords: metropolization, tourism urbanization, coastal territory, Itajaí-Florianópolis axis.

GRAFFITI | ON TRANSGRESSION IN THE PUBLIC SPACE. Towards Spaces of Uncertainty

2024-01-30T18:21:51+00:00

Through an analysis of the public space in late modernity, this dissertation proposes to think of graffiti as a possible rescue of the place, in the context of a growing homogeneous mass of non places, as argued by Augé. In doing so, other ways of producing the city are suggested, both in effective and meaningful terms, to the extent that the experience of graffiti is proposed as an act of resistance to spatial orthodoxy and exclusion. Since the recognition of this practice should never be regarded in terms of legality — thus running the risk of losing the subversive quality of the phenomenon and of incorporating it into gentrification policies —, tools are given for the un- derstanding of graffiti both within and outside the concepts and methodologies of traditional Art History and Art Criticism, drawing also on the street axioms themselves for a well demarcated distinction between moral (and legal) and aesthetic judgment.

Key-words: Spaces of Uncertainty, Participatory Urbanism, Graffiti, Urbotone

DESIGN, MOBILITY AND ASSEMBLY OF URBAN MODELS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN THE NARRATIVE CONFIGURATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS. The case of Conjunto Quinta Monroy, Chile

2024-01-30T18:46:10+00:00

The Quinta Monroy Housing Complex, by architect Alejandro Aravena and his office ELEMENTAL, emerged in 2003 as a narrative of "innovation" in the way of approaching the configuration of social housing residential projects in the context of the shift from quantity to quality in Chile's Urban-Housing Policy. The case became a benchmark residential model, disseminated internationally, marked by the release of the four prototypes of incrementality as a housing design formula for downloading from the ELEMENTAL website. Its analysis allows us to approach theoretical definitions of how urban models in contexts of globalisation are designed, mobilised and assembled, facilitating the circulation of certain narratives, ideas, knowledge and know-how that influence institutional and territorial structures that in turn shape residential space policies, plans and projects.

Keywords: residential project, urban models, incrementality, Chile.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REPUBLICAN CITY. Study on the first forms and adaptations of the urban fabric of the cities of Araucanía, Chile. 1880-1900

2024-02-01T15:58:45+00:00

The republican cities of Araucanía, a region located in the south of Chile, emerged after the end of the "pacification of Araucanía" (1862-1883). Following the presidential decrees of 1885 and 1889, which established provisions for the founding of towns, plans were drawn up and executed by the engineers in charge of colonization. These cities were projected according to the checkerboard grid, whose general outlines are defined in their first urban plans. Early on, variations and formal adaptations were generated in the layout of streets and blocks due to the geographical conditions of the location and variations in the distribution of state and civil enclosures. However, buildings such as the Fire Station, the Social Club, the Theater, and the Municipality, together formed a new urban facade of the main square, which contributed to the urban identity through its architecture.

Keywords: founding of cities, urban plans, architecture, Araucania, Araucanía

URBAN SEDIMENTATION AND BUILDING MUTATION. The role of the pre-existing buildings in the transformation of the city

2024-02-07T14:15:26+00:00

This research focuses on the potential value of pre-existing buildings in Portuguese urban regeneration over the last twenty years. For this purpose, three buildings have been selected that have been given a new lease of life through a change of use and have made a significant contribution to the transformation of the city: an old market has been converted into a music school, with a pedestrian walkway and garden, a slaughterhouse restored as a cultural centre with a new square for the city, and the rehabilitation of a set of blocks in which the interior spaces are opened up to generate new paths. The methodology includes the analysis of the type and form of the urban elements - street, square, block - observing the transformations over time on the building and the open space. The result is a critical sample of urban fragments in which the project of mutation of the buildings has served to generate new public spaces.

Keywords: morphology, typology, morphogenesis, re-used buildings, public space

PORTO, AVENIDA DA PONTE. Complexity and transformation

2024-02-07T14:18:26+00:00

The present article explores the development of a work methodology that analyzes the architectural project, supported by reading the drawing and the circumstances that are part of the project. “Avenida da Ponte”, in Porto, is an urban theme that has given rise to significant and prolonged reflections on its transformations in the city. As a result of urban operations throughout the 20th century and the object of dozens of projects developed for this area, it constitutes a problem whose analysis is of the utmost relevance. The proposed methodology seeks to understand the impact of the demolitions on the town and the proposals developed, namely in the articulation space between the architectural project and the site. From the collected data, key points will be presented for the formulation of an intervention idea, contributing to the debate, once again, and the need to solve this fragment in the city.

Keywords: method, Avenida da Ponte, architecture design as research

URBAN REGENERATION OF WATERFRONTS: Literature Review

2024-02-07T14:12:44+00:00

The regeneration of urban areas has entered the urban planning agenda of different cities, seeking to respond to scenarios of urban degradation and loss of functionality. In this sense, the urban regeneration of strategic areas of cities stands out, as the example of waterfronts. Based on this, the study aims to review the literature on the urban regeneration of waterfronts, seeking to understand how the theme has been addressed over the years and the existing gaps. The study was developed through a hybrid methodology, considering a systematic quantitative review, a semantic analysis, and a narrative analysis. The results demonstrate the actuality of the theme, the predominance of some countries – the UK, Italy, Australia, Portugal, and the USA - and the most recurrent areas of study - Social and Environmental Sciences. Finally, the main topics addressed are identified: policy, planning, projects, social aspects, cultural aspects, environmental aspects, economic aspects, and financial aspects.

Keywords: urban regeneration, waterfronts, literature review.

THE CITY-RIVER PARADIGM IN THE PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH EMPIRES. Belém and Valdivia in the 17th century

2024-02-07T14:06:17+00:00

In the early 17th century, Portugal and Spain shared territory and enemies, with Portugal experiencing previously peaceful countries such as Holland and England as threats to its colonies and trade and Spain experiencing attacks from the English and Dutch in its overseas colonies. Loosely consolidated colonial cities were established to consolidate footholds in under-exploited territories and for the defense of these territories. The foundation and maintenance of these cities were subject to the intervention of military and military engineers, aiming this article to understand the urban form resulting from this action, using urban morphology as a discipline of analysis. Although they do not correspond exactly, by analyzing the layouts of both cities, we realize that they are characterized by similar principles, such as orthogonality and the proximity of the main squares near the river, as well as the role of natural obstacles as boundaries and defense. Although the physical distance between the two cities is considerable, the Portuguese and Spanish intentions and layouts converged in a typology identified by us here.

Keywords: Iberoamerican Cities; Colonial History; Belém; Valdivia.

CULTURE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF PORTO. Discourses and practices variations in the recent municipal policy.

2024-02-07T14:03:30+00:00

The present paper aims to discuss the relationship between culture and urban development, regarding the city
of Porto as a case study. Considering its recent and irregular history of culture promotion, which has important
references since the acknowledgement of the Historic Centre as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1996, the
article explores political agendas, projects, and achievements, which place culture as strategic for urban
development. From that moment to the present day, Porto has experienced three styles of governance, with
direct effects on the treatment given to the municipality's cultural and heritage policy. The article, therefore,
analyses the relationship of the mentioned policies with urban policy, from the variation of discourses and
practices of municipal policy.

Keywords: Porto, culture, urban development, municipal policy.

Forms and dynamics of suburban landscapes

2024-02-07T14:43:53+00:00

Considering landscape not only as a set and combination of typo-morphological elements, but especially the relational dynamics between these elements and its underlying logics, our aim is to analyse what kind of typo-morphological elements are at work, the relations between them and the role that urban morphological parameters set in the regulations and plans have in suburban landscape composition and configuration. To shed light on these issues, we tried to identify which basic elements define suburban forms, their specificities, dynamics and relational attributes. We analysed land uses and parameters defined in line with the construction of suburban fabrics resulting from urban development operations, mainly private allotments, designed and built in the last decades and located in the metropolitan area of Lisbon (AML).

Keywords: urban parameters, urban planning, suburban form, suburban landscape.

Public leisure space and territorial planning. Study on squares in Florianópolis, Brazil

2024-02-07T14:36:10+00:00

This paper addresses the role of public leisure spaces in the construction of inclusive and sustainable cities. It is the result of reflections developed from research conducted on the squares in the continental portion of the city of Florianópolis, Brazil. It defines the concept of public open space as the material support for the existence of social and political life in cities. Moreover, it highlights the importance of public leisure spaces, squares and parks, which assume the character of multifunctionality, from the historical functions of fruition and sociability in the urban context to the ecological functions determined by the demands of climate change. The systems of public open spaces are, therefore, elements that structure the urban space and establish the bases and principles for territorial planning.

Keywords: public leisure spaces, territorial planning, square, Florianópolis.

Urban mobility and strategic urban design in peripheral centralities. The city of São Paulo at the beginning of the 21st century

2024-02-07T14:29:41+00:00

This research deals with proposals for the association of urban structuring linked to mass public transport in a peripheral area of the city of São Paulo, conceived as strategic guidelines for the urban planning process. The assumptions and projects of the strategic plans of the first decades of the 21st century, whose conceptions adopt transit oriented development as a principle, are evaluated. The methodology consists of analyzing and comparing the proposals for urban structuring associated with the mobility of strategic plans and projects in São Paulo between 2002 and 2014 related to the territories of subprefectures in the East Zone of the metropolis of São Paulo, having as object the proposals for structuring and qualification of peripheral centralities in the contemporary post-industrial metropolis.

Keywords: urban mobility, urban design, peripheral áreas, São Paulo.

ENVISIONING THE CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENT CITIES IN BANGLADESH USING FORESIGHT APPROACH

2024-02-16T16:54:25+00:00

Since the climate change significantly alter the city dynamics, governance for urban sustainability and resilience is crucial for strategic decision making. The objective of this research is to identify the factors affecting the functional systems of vulnerable cities and find ways of achieving urban resilience in intermediate cities of Bangladesh as climate change mitigation strategy. The research methodology adopts a systematic and foresight approach that conceptualizes the city as functional system, investigates the impact of climate change, incorporates foresight tools to envision the future of cities, fleshing out the vision’s implication on the functional system and lastly involving experts and stakeholders to formulate strategy. The study shows that climate refugees create huge urban demand but centralized and poor urban governance fails to support and provide services to these people leading to social discrimination and political unrests. The foresight exercise involves experts and stakeholders, whose feedback constructs the probable future scenarios, determine the implications and identify ways to enhance urban resilience.

Keywords: Climate change, Resilience; Foresight approach, Intermediate cities.

Spatial configuration and urban centrality: a comparative analysis in cities of Santa Catarina.

2024-02-07T13:32:35+00:00

Located in southern Brazil, the state of Santa Catarina has an urban structure that differs from the national context. Presenting great territorial and cultural diversity, its cities structure varied urban fabrics, some with quite dispersed and segregated configurations, others quite reticulated and integrated. In this paper we present research carried out in the 10 most populated cities in Santa Catarina, analyzing the distinct centralities that were consolidated through distinct growth processes. We studied formal, functional and symbolic attributes of these centralities, based on Holanda et al. (2002) and on the Spatial Syntax theory (Hillier and Hanson, 1984). The results found point to a strong correlation between the spatial configuration and the network of centralities present in the cities analyzed, revealing places that express different intensities of uses, people and meanings.

Keywords: Centrality, spatial configuration, urban layout.

Urban quality of life. The Brazilian experience on evaluation models

2024-02-07T14:39:19+00:00

The article addresses urban quality of life (UQoL), a complex concept with different scales of evaluation. The Brazilian experience in developing models for assessing UQoL is presented through a literature review. An overview of the concept in relation to urban planning is discussed, emphasizing the importance of indicators for monitoring public policies. The main evaluation models and indicators developed in Brazil are presented, with a focus on IQVU-BH and the use of data from IBGE for other indexes. As a result of the analysis, it is observed that most experiences have been concentrated in metropolitan regions, and although these models have represented advances in assessing the urban quality of life, it is still limited, especially outside the metropolitan reality, persisting the challenge of building an evaluation model that is meaningful for the entire country.

Keywords: Public policies, urban quality of life, evaluation models, urban indicators.

REAL STATE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATED TO RAIL RAPID TRANSIT LINES. The Hong Kong case

2024-02-07T14:09:06+00:00

This article describes the real estate and commercial development strategies practiced by MTR Corporation Limited and the boundary conditions that constitute its success factors. MTR is the leading public transportation operator in Hong Kong, China and is internationally recognized for its expertise in implementing and managing real estate businesses associated with the operation of metro systems. It leverages the synergy between its diverse activities to generate significant financial results, which are used to finance the growth of the MTR network, allowing the implementation of new lines without significant government investments. Based on research confirmed by various authors, it is possible to affirm that the implementation of metro networks causes significant real estate appreciation around the stations. The hypothesis supporting this research is that MTR's strategies, properly adjusted to local conditions, can be replicated in other cities, contributing to accelerate the expansion of their transport networks.

Keywords: Urban mobility, rail rapid transit network, subway, land value capture LVC.

The contribution from garden-suburbs to the mitigation of urban heat islands in São Paulo

2024-02-07T14:32:20+00:00

This article deals with the garden suburbs of São Paulo and its contribution to the mitigation of urban heat islands. A comparative study, in progress, of these with other neighborhoods of traditional urban pattern is proposed to verify the existing differences in the urban-environmental parameters evaluated. Thus, it is intended to demonstrate that the investigated garden suburbs play a fundamental role in the mitigation of heat islands, in addition to providing technical subsidies that help defend their preservation as urban-environmental heritage, since they are constantly threatened by the real estate market. It is believed that, by extracting positive parameters from the garden suburbs, they can be incorporated into urban intervention projects, in the revision of the current zoning law and master plan in São Paulo, and in the awareness of the local community and leaders, bringing innumerable benefits such as temperature reduction, energy savings, reduction of atmospheric pollution and floods, improvement of citizens health and quality of life.

Keywords: heat islands, garden-suburbs, townscape, climate change.

MUNICIPAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE BOHEMIAN KING PŘEMYSL OTAKAR II. The origins of the town of Polička and its geographical and urban importance in the context of the medieval urban network

2024-02-16T16:46:37+00:00

Medieval towns played a significant role in the political and administrative development of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Although their emergence on our territory was considerably delayed compared to other European states, in which their continuity can often be traced back to ancient times, their importance is not diminished in any way. The aim of this study is to present the reasons for the creation of the medieval urban network of the Bohemian Kingdom, especially during the time of the king of Bohemia Přemysl Otakar II, whose person is strongly associated with the initiation of the foundation of towns and their development. As an example, attention will be focused on the East Bohemian town of Polička, which, with its location and internal layout, vividly demonstrates the motives that led Přemysl Otakar II to such an extensive foundational work.

Keywords: municipal foundations, historical urbanism, Polička, Czech Republic