International Urban Planning Research Seminar

Urban agriculture and sustainability in the built environment

Fabio Cesar Moreira Manente — 2025-01-26

The theme of this investigation is food production in urban spaces, which demands locations and regulations for its practice and relates the individual to the urban environment from the perspective of sustainability. As it is an international and national debate, it requires understanding and observation parameters. Considering the environmental and social function of using land for agriculture justifies the commitment to searching for alternatives. The objective is to situate the current debate on urban agriculture to define paradigms for its viability, support ongoing initiatives and propose its expansion. Through a bibliographical review of the international and national panorama of the last 30 years and approaching the territory through initiatives that take place in the city of São Paulo, we search for ways to advance agricultural practices in the city.

IMPACTO DEL BOOM INMOBILIARIO EN LOS VALLES TURÍSTICOS. CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA.

Juan Manuel Echecolanea — 2025-01-26

The 21st century in Argentina was marked by two momentous events: the end of the convertibility regime and the boom in commodities. This triggered the "real estate boom," notably observed in the province of Córdoba and the Punilla state. This study focused on urban growth between 1990 and 2020, analyzing the expansion of urban areas, their dynamics, density, and the relationship between demographic and urban growth. Initial findings reveal an imbalance between population growth and urban expansion. While the former experiences vegetative growth rates with slight impulses derived from internal migrations, urban expansion occurs at an exponential rate. This phenomenon does not optimally meet the housing needs of the population and, due to its speculative approach, does not adequately address housing deficit concerns.

THE BIOME AND THE RURBAN

Adriana Nascimento — 2025-01-26

The article discusses the relationship between biome, territory and society, highlighting the neglected importance of rurbanized areas and their role in socio-spatial dynamics. Using a transdisciplinary and decolonial approach, in the transitional territory of southern Minas Gerais/Brazil, the occupation process is correlated with urban and regional planning. The research adopts a methodological perspective that considers the original occupation of human populations, fauna and flora in relation to ruralization and urbanization, in a territory where biomes transition. The complexity of territorial transformations is revealed through analysis, physical and digital mapping, visits to archaeological sites and remnants of the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes. The results show historical interactions between European invaders, indigenous communities and nature, contributing to an understanding of urban and territorial occupation in the region. This approach deconstructs dominant narratives and recognizes the cultural and landscape diversity in this context.

MEDIADORES URBANOS

Eduardo Daniel Bertiz Cabrera — 2025-01-26

It seeks to discuss the Mobility/City pair in the contemporary urban context, thinking about mediation strategies to obtain operational design tools and guidelines.

It involves conceiving current disciplinary practices differently, establishing new relationships between urban elements and the physical connection needs that coexist in a given environment, balancing inequalities in the use of public space and contemplating the most vulnerable modes of mobility (pedestrians, bicycles, light electrics ), compared to other more demanding ones such as the private car, managing to technically solve the functional requirements of motorized mobility and simultaneously build an inclusive, diverse and quality public space.

The notion of Urban Mediator that we support conceives a set of tools of an instrumental and operational nature, which establish primary design guidelines, but not their final formalization.

An Urban Mediator is then defined through the implementation of arguments and criteria ahead of formally completed interventions.

EVOLUCIÓN SOCIOECONÓMICA EN CENTROS HISTÓRICOS ESPAÑOLES

Miguel Pastor Coello — 2025-01-26

The issue of historic centers experienced a boom in Spain four decades ago and triggered the adoption of measures for the recovery of ancient urban fabrics. Some scholars have assessed that this change in the model of public action on historic centers managed to stop the process of degradation and disappearance of heritage that had been sponsored by Franco's policies, but they have also pointed out that, to have a more weighted critical balance, it would be necessary to pay attention to the social impacts of protection and rehabilitation measures. This communication wants to contribute to this debate by making an approach to the population effects of the urban planning and housing policies developed in the historic centers since the 1980s through the study of a popular area within the historic center of Valladolid: The San Martín neighborhood.

Português THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF REGIONAL URBANIZATION IN COLONIAL BRAZIL

leticia Coelho de Oliveira — 2025-01-26

The aim of this article is to present an overview of what has been researched by academics and heritage preservation organizations regarding the history of urbanization in Brazil, focusing on the formation of urban networks resulting from the exploration of diamonds in the Chapada Diamantina region, Bahia, in the 18th and 19th centuries. This review aims to identify potential gaps that research in the field of architecture and urbanism could address. Upon examining the extensive national and regional bibliography, it becomes evident that there is a need to in]corporate the contributions of these renowned researchers in the development of new studies. During the exploratory phase, the scarcity of specific studies on Architecture and Urbanism related to the history of urbanization in Bahia, especially in the Chapada Diamantina region, dealing with territorial formation and intraurban spaces, became apparent.

THE ‘ACCESO NORTE’ AS AN INDUSTRIAL ROAD (1950-1960).

Valeria Ana Gruschetsky — 2025-01-26

The Acceso Norte was an 84 kilometer road that was designed in 1940 as part of the Access network to the Capital Federal. It was a work that took several decades to complete. Its route began at the intersection with Avenida General Paz (limit and access to the Capital) and culminated in the town of Pilar, its most extreme point. It was made up of three branches (Tigre, Garín and Pilar) that connected with national routes 8, 9 and 12. At the end of the 1950s the works began to be carried out more quickly. In this work we will analyze the spatial transformations produced as the work of the Northern Access progressed on the suburban territory and the way in which a landscape with a strong industrial imprint was configured based on the survey, interweaving and analysis of documentary sources and graphic material.

Towards a methodology for the historic urban landscape study

Patricia Mariana Acosta — 2025-01-26

The inclusion of Quebrada de Humahuaca on the World Heritage List it is an opportunity to reflect on heritage condition of the villages found in the protected area declared, in terms of a conceptual framework and the urban planning and management. The recognition of Quebrada de Humahuaca as World Heritage led to international spread, cause a strong development of tourism also concerns about the impacts on urban landscape. This study aims to explore the interrelationship between cultural heritage and tourism by traces in the urban landscape, on the assumption the understanding of the dynamics between protection and building renovation is essential for urban planning and management of historic cities. The cultural landscape paradigm requires to adapt the methodology of study of urban landscape to the Landscape Character Assessment, to go beyond a current methodology of study the architectural heritage.

Geospatial Analysis of Commerce in Cariacica

Lyvia Fialho Soares de Moraes — 2025-01-26

This article presents research results on spatial centralities, through the lens of commercial use. The concept of centrality and location of commercial activities are considered logics of existential interdependence, or are defined as an attribute that provides concentration of people, benefits and information (Vargas, 2000). The research uses Kernel Density as a means of calculating estimates, starting from the geometric abstraction of the point and thus, associating the locations based on density values of commercial activity. The spatial data of two commercial establishments are provided by National Address Register for Statistics from 2022 (IBGE, 2024) and are taken as the object or municipality of Cariacica, Brazil. The main results of the density shown in the association of commercial use with the road structure; It analyzes the spatial patterns by a certain set of point data and highlights line-point as a fundamental variable relationship, in search of understanding location patterns.

ESTRUCTURA RESIDENCIAL Y OFERTA PRIVADA DE LA VIVIENDA

Zulema Conto Quispe — 2025-01-26

The residential structure of Peruvian cities is the result of legal gaps in planning and land access management instruments; as well as the private real estate market (formal, informal and illegal). In the city of Cusco, traditional residential areas are losing this character, giving way to commercial uses; apartment buildings replace single-family homes; New peripheral urban areas emerge with dispersed buildings. As a result of this problem, this paper aims to explain how the current residential structure of the province of Cusco is conditioned by the private supply of housing, as well as the land market and urban properties. The analysis is based on the review of the results of the latest censuses, as well as the record of the value of the land and the marketable urban properties in the area of analysis.

Urban Regeneration of public space “street”

Luciana Ines Repiso — 2025-01-26

This paper represents a progress report of the Research Project "URBAN REGENERATION THROUGH PUBLIC OPEN SPACE. Rethinking the street as a key element in city-making" (SECYT-UNC), whose main objective is to provide theoretical and procedural contributions on the valorization of the street as an essential element of urbanity and its significant role in positive urban transformation, through an investigation into various types of streets in the metropolis of Córdoba (Argentina). The report is organized into two stages: on the one hand, the development of a theoretical-conceptual construction of the street from the notion of "city-making" and the paradigm of urban environmental sustainability, and on the other hand the systematization of case studies (existing interventions and non-built projects). The obtained results focus on key aspects for urban regeneration, with the identified attributes serving as foundational inputs for subsequent evaluative and exploratory stages of the Córdoba case studies.

COLOURING AND SECURING THE DWELLING

Maria Cristina Alves Pereira — 2025-01-26

Na contemporaneidade, a condição urbana está repleta de disputas, conflitos e violência urbana relacionados à estrutura político-econômica, à distribuição de renda e às históricas desigualdades socioespaciais. Gerados pela urbanização desordenada e carente de urbanidade, são visíveis impactos que evidenciam a concentração de problemas sociais em territórios específicos. O artigo tem como objetivo discutir e apresentar os resultados de uma transformação socioespacial ocorrida por meio da intervenção artística participativa na paisagem urbana. As transformações socioespaciais e culturais têm gerado impactos territoriais positivos, fortalecendo vínculos, inibindo a violência e fomentando a economia e a cultura locais. Ancorado na metodologia de estudo de caso exploratório qualitativo, o trabalho traz observações das etapas da coleta de dados da área estudada, com análise crítica. O estudo busca compreender os desdobramentos e consequências relacionados às melhorias urbanas e sociais sobre a redução da desigualdade social e a valorização da participação popular em suas etapas.

HOUSING PRODUCTION IN INTERMEDIATE CITIES

Maria Fernanda Alvarez do Bomfim — 2025-01-26

Housing management occurs according to the logic of the public, the commercial, or the need. Since the
1980s, the province of San Luis has exhibited a migratory phenomenon that transformed its population
dynamics. Likewise, it was characterized by developing a policy of mass housing production. In this work, the
historical and spatial evolution of housing production between 1983 and 2020 was investigated, focusing on
the relationship between the logic of public and necessity. The interrelation of institutional data, census and
cartographic information, speeches and surveys carried out was used. State housing production represents
58% of total housing, however this growth has slowed since 2004, while slums, which today represent 8% of
housing, began to experience notable growth. accentuated since 2011.

URBAN CRITICAL THINKING

Dana Agustina Gonzalez — 2025-01-26

This work proposes an approach to disciplinary critical thinking, considered heritage of words and base material to the design process.

In addition, the objective of this work is to deepen the understanding and reflect on the inmaterial legacy and its repercussions in future generations, from a gender perspective, putting into value the imprint of a woman that marked a turning point in both academic and professional fields.

Based on this analysis, it is proposed to take the architect and urbanist María Elena Foglia, as a case study with her work on urban planning and urban heritage.

the RESILIENT MOBILITY: SAFE CIRCUITS FOR THE WATER EMERGENCY

Florencia Senise — 2025-01-26

Mobility systems are a fundamental link in the process of building resilience in cities. In a risk scenario, decisions about how, where and where to move will determine the degree of security that allows people to face the emergency, not only during the event, but in the subsequent days. The possibility of establishing resilient circuits that involve different forms of urban mobility, the diversity of users and safe points, leads to the construction of the confidence and tranquility necessary when acting in the middle of the chaos imposed by the catastrophe. The research proposes to design safe and resilient circuits that are oriented to prepare the population in order to be safetly in a rain flooding face; taking as a case study the Arroyo Maldonado basin, La Plata District, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

DENSIFICAR EN LA DISPERSIÓN

Raúl Alejandro Flores — 2025-01-26

Los estudios sobre los efectos de la globalización en las ciudades de Latinoamérica, dan cuenta de que, producto de la retracción del Estado, la desregulación del mercado y la financierización de la economía, desde la última década del siglo XX, la dispersión de la ciudad se ha convertido en el tipo único -o al menos hegemónico- de urbanización, donde el capital privado avanza sobre el territorio, desmontando el campo circundante en fragmentos de ciudad. En este sentido, y en el marco del proyecto de investigación “Territorios periurbanos. Planes, prácticas y proyectos en la construcción territorial de la Zona Sur de la ciudad de Córdoba” (dir. Dr. Arq. Fernando Díaz Terreno, SECyT-UNC, período 2023-2027), que aborda el estudio de las periferias como los espacios protagónicos de las principales transformaciones espaciales recientes, la presente ponencia se centra en el estudio del proceso de transformación del sector urbano de “Villa Eucarística”, en la zona sur de la Ciudad de Córdoba, en el período 2001-2021. La investigación se sitúa en un espacio de borde urbano, situado en el ámbito periurbano sur de la ciudad, que se encuentra actualmente tensionado por dinámicas de anexión de suelo urbano. Interesa particularmente el estudio del proceso mediante el cual, complementariamente al proceso de dispersión de la urbanización (consumo extensivo del suelo), se observa que, producto de la valorización de los espacios intersticiales, en las últimas décadas se observa la intensificación en las formas de fraccionamiento y ocupación del suelo, que incrementan notoriamente las densidades edilicias respecto a las observadas en períodos precedentes (consumo intensivo del suelo). El trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que, en el marco de la intensificación de los procesos de transformación territorial, las políticas públicas no actúan dirigiendo el desarrollo de la ciudad, sino que hacen representaciones de ésta, legitimando lo que ya sucede en el territorio. A partir de la utilización de imágenes satelitales, cartografías históricas y sistemas de información geográfica, la investigación realizará la identificación, tipificación y mapeo de las diferentes formas residenciales detectadas en el ámbito de estudio (fraccionamientos rurales, loteos residenciales privados, asentamientos informales, planes oficiales de vivienda, condominios, etc.), a fin de cuantificar y cualificar el proceso de transformación. Complementariamente, se realizará el estudio del universo de normas e instrumentos de gestión, estén o no incluidos en los procesos oficiales de planificación. El objetivo principal es indagar sobre las relaciones causales y temporales que existen entre las formas de ocupación observadas en distintos períodos históricos y las políticas urbanas que propician su habilitación, regularización y reproducción. Del resultado de la investigación se espera obtener evidencia cartográfica y analítica útil para determinar el impacto de las políticas de planificación y regulación, en la producción y consolidación de los nuevos modos de periurbanización.

Morphological and functional transformations resulted from mixed zoning

Agustina Micaela Martorell — 2025-01-26

The present work addresses the issue of the mixture of industrial-residential uses in the neighborhood of Villa Lynch, in relation to the guidelines provided by urban planning zoning codes. To study the level of functional mixture and how it is interpreted by regulations, the urban planning codes of the General San Martín district, the Tres de Febrero district, the Tigre district, and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are compared. The first section studies the zoning of the selected districts to assess the relationship between industrial and residential uses. The second section will examine the changes proposed by existing or anticipated technological districts. Finally, an analysis will be conducted on how the zoning of Villa Lynch has evolved and how this impacts the compatibility of existing and future uses.

Social projectual evolution of common spaces in the social housing

Marilina Beatriz Romero — 2025-01-26

The research proposes the evolutionary, morphological and design analysis of the landscape in the common spaces of high density social housing complexes, considering the social and cultural component as a modifier of space. It stars by understanding the landscape as the result of the interaction of different components, both tangible (the green or non green materials used to shape it, the type of chosen design, their morphological characteristics, the applied technologies) and intangible (its history, from its planning to the social events of wich it was a scene, the intrinsic relationship with those who inhabit the landscape) all situations that position the user as a modifier of space, where they give meaning to it through their experience.

Castellano

Candelaria Ramondino — 2025-01-26

The Urban and Periurban Travel Observatory (ODuP) Team of the Universities of Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata is investigating people's movements in urban and rural areas since 2014. The objective is to develop a walkability index that considers the particularities of the peri-urban area of an intermediate city in General Pueyrredon and in the metropolitan area of Florencio Varela, both Province of Buenos Aires. The research background on the topic focuses on physical characteristics of the pedestrian space, socio-urban functions and generated dynamics. The research seeks to propose a replicable model, centered on people, with improvements based on the sustainability, quality and safety of urban movements. Currently, there is a lack of public policies capable of addressing sustainable mobility in these peri-urban areas in a comprehensive manner.

LOGISTIC SPRAWL AS AN URBAN ISSUE

Juliano Prata Honorato — 2025-01-26

The article brings to the debate logistic sprawl as a driver of the growth of peri-urban boundaries in metropolitan municipalities. It discusses current topics such as urban logistics, e-commerce, and the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as other issues like socio-spatial fragmentation, urban voids, and the capitalist production of space, which are significant in the Brazilian urbanization process. The dynamics of territorial occupation by sectors related to transport logistics and cargo storage, observed in some cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, have also been observed in recent decades in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions (MRs), including the Metropolitan Region of Greater Vitória (MRGV) in the state of Espírito Santo (ES). This dynamic is grounded in actions of a real estate market that appropriates social laws, formulated even during a progressive period in Brazilian politics, to introduce different land occupation modes and new real estate products, aiming for higher profits.

Industrial and logistics parks in the city of Córdoba, Argentina

María Sol Garay — 2025-01-26

This paper seeks to reflect on the accessibility of industrial ground in its different forms through a multi-scale perspective that considers situated processes and urban processes in the production of geographical space. The new forms of industrial ground consumption generated in the last decade by the logistics sector (Production Logistics and Distribution Logistics services) demand peripheral urban ground with large surfaces and connected to the main access roads. We can observe in the city of Cordoba processes of metropolisation that coexist (or rather dispute) with functionalities of the fordist industrial periphery and residence.

Urban development projects and creative economies

Gabriel Mancuello — 2025-01-26

Urban policies promoting creative economies were initially implemented in the city of Buenos Aires in degraded areas of the pre-existing urban fabric, in the form of economic districts. Nonetheless, a new generation of urban development projects has recently emerged, with the objective of developing this specific sector of the economy through the creation of new urban environments, designed specifically for this purpose. In this context, this paper explores —through qualitative analysis— two case studies that are currently under execution: “Parque de la Innovación” and “Ciudad de las Ciencias”. The analysis presented shows how the urban development projects have become a vehicle to the territorialization of specific forms of economic development, bringing into discussion new and differential strategies employed for the development of science, technology, and innovation as an urban policy.

Español Biolandscape as an alternative for sustainable cities and communities

María Virginia Piñero — 2025-01-26

Biolandscape, it breathes, it changes, it transforms, it is formed by complex living systems in constant movement and connected to each other. Any alteration in any of its components generates consequences and alterations in the rest of the components and systems. Biolandscape gets sick, dies, rebuilds, it is resilient. Biolandscape is perceived and understood with all the senses, with the whole body, with all the history, with all the wisdom inherited and transmitted. Biolandscape expresses itself, it shouts, it whispers, it sings. Biolandscape is much more than an image. Biolandscape is a cultural construction that allows the human being to interpretate and experience through the sensory process, wich decodes external stimulus to understand them and value them through the cognitive process. Biolandscape means a multisensory live through experience that builds a connection between the parts, which reconnects the individual with all its components and systems.

Walkability in fragmented territories

Maria Cecilia Marengo — 2025-01-26

The team's line of research addresses the study of urban growth processes in the southern periphery of Córdoba City, Argentina. In this phase of the work, we seek to explain how the organisation of the territory impacts mobility and accessibility in terms of pedestrian movements. The objective is to describe mobility and accessibility from walkability variables, through a qualitative and quantitative methodology.

The first results verify how in fragmented peripheral territories; road accessibility depends largely on individual mobility. It is related to the location of urban facilities, mostly located on main roads and with gated communities.

Population density also influences, since more densely populated areas tend to have greater walkability and road connectivity than gated communities. The conclusions seek to provide indicators of residential quality in peripheral environments, relating critical aspects linked to fragmentation, with access to equipment and services through different pedestrian mobility systems.

NEW TERRITORIES AT RISK

Guido Barbero — 2025-01-26

The city of La Plata extends over ten basins and streams that flow towards the Río de la Plata. Throughout the urban growth process, the natural support was not considered in terms of basin logic; its streams were transformed, and its plains were occupied. As a consequence of the natural environment conditions and the city's horizontal growth, since the 1970s, over a hundred and fifty floods due to precipitation have been recorded, with the 2013 one being the most devastating, resulting in 89 official deaths. A decade after the disaster, urban growth continues to advance. In relation to this, the objective of this work is to investigate - identify, analyze, and compare - the process of urban occupation growth in flood-prone areas of the basins of the City of La Plata, ten years after the disaster of April 2013.

METROPOLITAN REGIONS AS TERRITORIES IN CONTROVERSY

Cristian Gabriel Terreno — 2025-01-26

This work presents results of a doctoral thesis on the metropolitan regions growth by extension, recognizing its impacts and seeking to contribute towards new management forms. Nowadays metropolitan regions are understood as complex territories of great dynamism where the conventional categories of the urban are permanently challenged, to both describe and explain these territories, and to plan, regulate and manage them. For this reason, this paper proposes to conceptualize them as territories in controversy where, in contexts of tension between planetary globalization processes and local development, it is possible to recognize the specificities of each metropolitan region by analyzing the relationships between the actors involved and the transformations materialized in the territory. A concept guides the analysis towards transformations: active territoriality. It understands that the local actors themselves, based on recognizing the resources and limitations, build the overcoming proposals based on negotiations.

Spatial dynamics and innovation in the City of Córdoba

Manuel Zapata — 2025-01-26

This paper seeks to address the practices of mainly industrial companies in the northern area (Barrio Los Boulevares) of the city of Córdoba, identifying the existence of innovative practices where the three characteristics of innovation are visible: incremental, informal and cooperative.

We seek to identify who and how they innovate in productive terms, and how differential agents are articulated in concrete territorial practices. The focus is on the innovation-territory relationship, particularly the production of the latter, with urban characteristics, based on innovation activities developed by certain agents of the industrial sector.

Keywords: Urban space - Industries - Innovation - Territory

Territorial Growth and Current state of planning in the northwest corridor

Cintia Ariana Barenboim — 2025-01-26

In the last two decades, the towns of Funes and Roldán were the ones with the greatest demographic and construction growth in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, consolidating the northwest residential-garden axis. The process consumed much of the rural land for the urban and suburban land market. The weekend housing lots were transformed into permanent housing, incorporating new typologies, usually with incomplete infrastructure and services, but with larger dimensions, level of security and landscape value.

The cities do not have a territorial strategy at the metropolitan level since they did not participate in the "26 Local Strategies Program, a Metropolitan Plan", having weak local regulations that favor developers.

The article analyzes the diffuse urbanization process (population and urban plan) and the state of regulation, describing the guidelines of general and particular instruments, in order to consider elements for a more balanced and sustainable future planning.

MOBILITY AND ACCESIBILITY TO A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Matias Pedro Romero Machuca — 2025-01-26

The present research presents the progress of a doctoral thesis that aims to contribute to studies on mobility related to university campuses, with a special focus on urban accessibility. The case study is the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE). While this type of mobility related to university studies is increasingly studied globally, there are few precedents in Argentina. The thesis adopts a multimethod approach, combining qualitative, quantitative, and spatial analysis methodologies to reconstruct both general travel patterns and individual travel experiences. The results presented here analyze mobility in relation to the Resistencia Campus, located in the homonymous city, based on surveys conducted with students from the faculties of Architecture and Engineering during the year 2023.

Management of drinking water and sanitation in Tucumán

Melisa Jabif — 2025-01-26

The starting point of this research refers to the complexity of conflicts over water and the hypotheses that refer to how its administration has followed political and socioeconomic situations. We recover the historical process of the water sector in Argentina and in the province of Tucumán, linked to urban expansion and infrastructure networks, in a key of exclusion. We are interested in analyzing the complex network of water actors in Tucumán and its link with inequality in access to the service, based on historically reconstructing the articulation between urban growth and provision systems. To do this, we appeal to an approach focused on Political Ecology and Urban Planning as a discipline and as a technique. The method adopted allows a triangulation of primary (interviews) and secondary sources.

Splinters

Daniel Alonso Reigía — 2025-01-26

The Latin American city has exploded. As a consequence of this urbanity explosion, splinters emerge; logistics poles, precarious settlements, private urbanizations, are some of the typologies of the fragments released by the expansive wave on natural and rural territories.

In Uruguay we are assisting to a “boom” in planning and execution of private urbanizations as a mechanism for city reproduction and a preferred way of living for the upper social strata. Regulatory flexibility, increasingly powerful developer groups and the absence of public debate are some of the keys to understanding the multiplication of this type of development.

In this paper are marked some synthetic definition of the topic by analyzing the most evident urban and territorial processes associated with these kind of urbanization and their advance on relevant natural environments of the country. Finally, are proposed some alternatives for studying cumulative impacts with a prospective and integrative vision of natural resaqources, ecosystems and preexistences

CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND AIR QUALITY

Federico Napoli — 2025-01-26

Climate change poses significant challenges for urban environments, especially in cities like Lima. This study investigates the intersection of climate resilience and air quality in Lima, focusing on the role of green infrastructure. Through analysis, it underscores the importance of implementing green infrastructure strategies to mitigate the effects of the urban heat island, improve air quality, and enhance overall urban livability. The study highlights the necessity for interventions at multiple scales, emphasizing the importance of coordinated efforts at both local and regional levels to address the complex challenges of climate change and urbanization in Lima.

The southwestern outskirts of the city of Cordoba

Claudia Romo — 2025-01-26

The analysis carried out on the southwestern periphery of the city of Cordoba describe the spatial transformations between 1985 and 2015 explaining the processes of growth, decrease; urban configurations and reconfiguration resulting from multiple political, economic, social and cultural actions and decisions. The temporal delimitation corresponds to events that, due to their impact, marked new phases of social and urban organization, outlining new spatial configurations that overlapped the previous ones. The first period (1985) is the framework of the recent democracy. The second (1989) the turning point that marked a radical change in the orientation of the national political organization. The third (2001) was the deep social crisis. The fourth period (2003) the beginning of a new phase of national organization where important changes were promoted in the national administration. Methodologically, with the available material, measurements were made that allowed estimates on population growth, urbanization, infrastructure and housing construction.

The Construction of the Cordillera de los Altos Territory in Paraguay

Emmerick Trey Braun Enciso — 2025-01-26

The research originates from the ongoing discussions in Paraguay regarding the fate of its cities and territory, where issues related to urban and territorial planning seem to be recurrent. In these matters, we encounter the territory of the Cordillera de los Altos entering the metropolitan dynamics of Asunción. The relationship between these two territories dates back to the prehistoric and historical processes of human influence on the natural landscape. The systematic drawing of new cartographies build the main tool of the research, accompanied by a new descriptive-analytical narrative of the morphology of the studied territory. The analysis is structured in two instances, establishing a chronology that allows tracing the evolution of the traditional territory towards contemporary trends.

EQUIPAMIENTO PARA EL CUIDADO

Claudia Vanesa Oviedo — 2025-01-26

Feminist Urbanism can be associated with the idea of Everyday Life. (Ciocoletto, A. and Punt 6 2014) Care tasks are necessary for the social development of people and are mainly intended for the private sphere. The use of care infrastructures is necessary, these include health services, food, education, and comprehensive protection services. This research takes a case study of the community integration center of the city of Curuzú Cuatiá Corrientes, Argentina. develops an analysis of the change in the uses of the center, from 2019 to the post-Covid-19 pandemic period. The objective is to show the evolution of the center's uses based on the new tasks carried out. It shows its adaptation to changes in actions and the activities, expressing the importance and need to be flexible in its uses to respond to times of change, crisis and social transformation.

RAPPER SABOTAGE

Maria Isabel Imbronito — 2025-01-26

The reality of the Boqueirão favela, São Paulo, is investigated through the lens of culture, under the prerogative that cultural actions are ways of strengthening the identity of the peripheral subject and their existence in the favela, and that establish a relationship with the public space in which they live. occur. In this sense, the work maps the public space in search of cultural manifestations that contribute to reversing the stigma that affects subjects and the territory, building and claiming an image of oneself, for oneself and before others, by narrating the story residents and propose actions that contribute to improving the quality of life by encouraging the appropriation of public spaces, income generation and community cohesion. The importance of the rapper Sabotage (1973-2003), resident of Boqueirão, is highlighted, whose ideas remain present on walls, mottos and interventions throughout the favela, becoming a strong reference for residents.

The FLOATING POPULATION IN MEXICALI

Carlos Gándara Woongg — 2025-01-26

The "floating population" is defined as those who are temporarily in a place without it being their habitual residence, encompassing diverse groups, from migrants to temporary workers. The objective of this study is to identify factors influencing the perception of housing among temporary inhabitants in the border city of Mexicali, Baja California, providing a detailed insight into their composition and perceptions. With a quantitative approach and a random sample of 96 individuals, the perception of housing was addressed through surveys conducted in different locations in the city. Despite disparities in housing compared to local residents, the majority of the floating population perceives their homes as good or neutral, indicating a conscious adaptation to transitoriness. These findings inform policies and programs to address the needs of this mobile group.

CENTRALIDADES NOCTURNAS Y MOVILIDAD COTIDIANA EN EL CONURBANO BONAERENSE

Lorena Vecslir — 2025-01-26

The proliferation of bars, breweries, restaurants, and nightclubs in residential areas of the Greater Buenos Aires generates a series of conflicts, such as increased traffic, noise level and occupation of public space, arising from this type of functional mixture. Faced with this problem, the paper analyzes the nocturnal centralities of San Martín municipality, both from the perspective of people's movements and the configuration of the urban fabric and its functional (in)compatibilities. At the municipal level, we recognize the focal points of concentration and the temporalities of nightlife. Then, we characterize mobility and accessibility patterns from a sample of eleven establishments, for which we surveyed the rates of trips attraction and generation and carried out more than 300 interception surveys. Finally, we delve into the typological characteristics of some representative cases and the appropriation they generate of public or collective space.

Judicial Intervention and Habitability

Adriana B. Olivera — 2025-01-26

Since 2020, the habitability conditions have been investigated and construction and maintenance proposals have been developed for the Padre Mugica housing complex, located in the Villa Lugano neighbourhood, Comuna 8 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The investigation arises at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Nation with the objective of contributing to the solution of a housing conflict framed in the "Mendoza Case." From the request, the need to clarify legal tools and institutional devices capable of guaranteeing the joint and participatory work of all those involved in relocation processes of inhabitants from towns and settlements is evident. With this experience, it is expected to provide bases to contribute to the search for solutions in accordance with the emerging aspects of the process as a whole that, from a participatory approach, facilitate the formulation of consensual and surpassing proposals that guarantee adequate habitability conditions.

el/la DE CARRINHO PELA CIDADE: DA RUA AO SKATEPARK

Laura Fernandes — 2025-01-26

O skateboarding tem sido uma prática recorrente na cultura urbana e, nessa condição, tem contribuído para novas formas de uso e configuração do espaço urbano. Embora essa experiência seja comumente associada à apropriação de espaços públicos, sua relação com a cidade vai além do simples uso dos espaços urbanos. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de compreender a relação entre o skate, cidade e espaço público sob três perspectivas: a relação do skatista com a cidade vivida; a disposição dos elementos urbanos em ambientes destinados ao skate, ou em ambientes apropriados pelo skate; a influência da prática do skate na identidade e cultura urbana. O estudo de caso detém-se na análise de lugares vinculados à prática do skate de Porto Alegre. Metodologicamente, propõe uma revisão bibliográfica de caráter exploratório, sobrepondo lentes diversas, aptas a contribuir para a apreensão da complexidade da dinâmica urbana e de seus praticantes, para além de saberes especializados.

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN METHODOLOGIES OF PUBLIC SPACE

Juan Santiago Palero — 2025-01-26

This paper reviews the participatory methodologies developed during the project of two public spaces located in areas of socio-urban integration. The research was based on a comparative case study between two experiences carried out between 2022 and 2023, the first located in Susana Quintela neighborhood of the city of La Rioja and the second in La Matera neighborhood, Quilmes, in the south of metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. The bibliographical investigation exposed a series of vacancies related to the participatory design of public space, from which specific methodological questions were formulated for experiences in contexts of socio-urban integration. The hypothesis that guides the work states that participatory design allows an opportunity for coordination between multiple actors, essential for addressing complex problems such as the preservation, improvement, and articulation of public spaces.

Sustainable quality as a conceptual challenge for the analysis of metropolitan urban tissues.

Cristian Gabriel Terreno — 2025-01-26

The extension of contemporary cities in metropolitan territories is a phenomenon that challenges both conceptual structures to understand it and tools for its management. In particular, the current planetary environmental crisis requires reviewing the ways of transforming the territory to create a habitat with new quality references. The growth with urban extensions on periurban territories has been recognized as one of the main factors of environmental deterioration since it consumes rural territory that has provided environmental services. In addition to being reduced, these rural territories receive negative impacts from the urban area. On the other hand is recognize as territory of segregation and loss of public space. This paper searches conceptual proposals for analyse territorial transformations, that are suitable to investigate the metropolitan fabrics understood as the component of the habitat where urban decisions (layout, infrastructure, subdivisions) are related to architecture, with a focus on public space and the relations to architecture shaping it.

ESTRATÉGIA PREVENTIVA DE INUNDAÇÕES E DESLIZAMENTOS EM ASSENTAMENTOS URBANOS INFORMAIS NA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE CURITIBA

Ivan Ricardo Fernandes — 2025-01-26

No Brasil, o processo de urbanização fragmentado levou a ocupações urbanas informais, sem infraestrutura básica e moradia digna e segura. O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender a situação de risco e vulnerabilidade urbana no Núcleo Urbano Central de Curitiba (NUC), no âmbito da dinâmica de metropolização e na perspectiva da gestão preventiva de desastres. O escopo do estudo abrange assentamentos urbanos informais sujeitos a inundações e deslizamentos de terra. O caso mais grave está no município de Campo Magro, que teve, entre 2000 e 2010, um aumento na taxa de urbanização de 542,29%. O mapeamento das áreas de atenção e a sobreposição dessas informações com loteamentos irregulares revelou que a possível ocorrência de enchentes e deslizamentos afetaria 400 pessoas e 92 residências. Concluiu-se que o mapeamento de riscos e a gestão de desastres pelas autoridades públicas são medidas adaptativas fundamentais para a gestão preventiva dos riscos decorrentes das mudanças climáticas.

Palavras-chave: Vulnerabilidade. Mudanças climáticas. Urbanização informal. Adaptação Urbana.

Bloco temático: morfologias urbanas.

The urban project in popular habitat contexts

Cecilia Andrea Becerra — 2025-01-26

The territorialization of social and urban inequality has produced the systematic exclusion of a large percentage of the population from the rights to housing and the city. Urban-housing policies show the persistence of an approach that has limited the discussion of habitat to minimal expressions, leading to the abandonment of a comprehensive and qualitative view of the subject. With the aim of thinking about improving tools to intervene in popular habitat contexts, the article proposes to explore the notion of Urban Project (PU) as a project and management tool in the field of popular habitat. It is proposed to explore its conceptual basis in the Latin American context and approach its operational possibilities in the territory for socio-spatial integration.

NUEVAS PERSPECTIVAS URBANAS: FORMANDO CIUDADES PARA LA INFANCIA

Laura Karla Marquez — 2025-01-26

The inclusion of children as active citizen in the design, planning and improvement of urban space with the aim of materializing their ideas in public policies would lead to the premise that if a city is well planned for children, it is well planned for everyone. The following is a description of the experience of children´s participation in the initiative called Laboratorio Universitario Infancia y Ciudad, an experience whose objective is to provide a solid foundation for children’s participation between the academic and public sectors.

The importance of housing in the context of socio-environmental vulnerability

Andréa Guimarães — 2025-01-26

This article analyzes the housing issue in the face of environmental vulnerabilities in the context of Petrópolis, a historic, touristic municipality located in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. The concept of environmental justice is addressed in contrast to climate events and initiatives and actions implemented by public authorities, focusing on Technical Assistance for Social Housing (ATHIS). Qualitative and exploratory in nature, the methodology includes state-of-the-art analysis, journalistic research and informal interviews with institutional agents and community residents. The aim is to reaffirm the importance of housing inclusion and risk management that can be promoted through public policies such as ATHIS.

LAND MARKET IN EXPANDED INTERMEDIATE LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

Ladislao Ferrando — 2025-01-26

In Latin American cities, the right to the city exercise by vulnerable sectors is affected by the dynamics of the real estate market. This is related to urban land disparate valuation determined by factors such as infrastructure, landscape, services, fashion, and urban development. In the coastal Corridor 11 of Buenos Aires, demographic growth, bonded with market, entails social segregation and spatial fragmentation. The work analyzes the land market in the Route 11 Corridor in 2022, using the Land Accessibility Index (LAI) to measure the time it takes for households to access land. Proximity to the coast and service coverage are key factors in shaping the price of land. The LAI increases in low-income households and in areas with less influence of the latter ones.

EL PATRIMONIO COMO POLÍTICA PÚBLICA EN MONTEVIDEO

Pablo Canén — 2025-01-26

The incorporation of architectural heritage in Montevideo into the institutional sphere is a phenomenon of recent history in Uruguay. This management arena is organized through a set of specific measures: a heritage soil regime under the Montevideo Plan of 1998, the creation of special commissions, the realization of urban and architectural inventories, and the development of territorial planning plans for areas with outstanding architectural value. Although these measures have not yet been applied in all the city's heritage areas, they are the long-term goal in heritage management.

URBAN HABITABILITY SEMAPHORE

Ana María Compagnoni — 2025-01-26

This presentation exposes the results of Habitability Analytical and Valorative Model developed in the PhD. On a interaction matrix between Public Space Dimensions and Sustainability Fields, attributes or categories and valuation parameters were defined, integrated to a Control Board, which links the valuation scale with a chromatic semaphore of primary and secondary colours. This Urban Habitability Semaphore (SHU) weights and colours the valuation of each parameter for each unit, resulting in a multichromatic panel, as DNA of the habitability of each urban fabric. The device makes it possible to observe the performance of these in relation to each attribute and allows to modify this genetic pattern in order to visualise results and adopt mitigation or optimisation measures. The SHU is an instrument for observing and managing urban habitability over time and, as an integral habitability construct, it is a contribution to the integration of knowledge.En todos los casos debe incluirse el abstract en inglés.

CONFORMACION, ESTABILIDAD Y CRISIS VALLETANOS

José Luis Basualdo — 2025-01-26

The Upper Valley of the Río Negro was developed at the end of the 19th century with an Enlightenment perspective with the purpose of incorporating it into the international economic matrix. This gave rise to a cultural landscape where farms are juxtaposed with small and medium-sized cities. This model worked adequately until the 1970s, the loss of profitability of fruit production marks the beginning of a series of territorial imbalances (environmental liabilities generated by extractive activities, farms in real estate growth, growth of popular neighborhoods in vulnerable areas, etc. ) that clearly show the inadequacy of the current territorial model. Based on the understanding of the current state of the current territorial model, we believe it is possible to build guidelines that we will call “decalogue for a desired cultural landscape”; For this we will resort to the view of the cultural landscape and its operational trilogy “describe, interpret, propose” articulated with techniques of diagrammatic construction and social cartography.

Heritage, Railway and Tourism

Camila Campoy — 2025-01-26

This research seeks to analyze the effectiveness of planning actions and preservation policies at the regional level of railway industrial remnants in a group of cities in the interior of the State of São Paulo (Brazil) and the province of Seville (Spain). In São Paulo, the formation of cities was driven by the Companhia Paulista de Estrada de Ferro, founded in 1868 and today belongs to the “Serra do Itaqueri” tourist circuit. In Seville, the group of cities crossed by the line of the Compañía de Ferrocarriles de Madrid, Zaragoza y Alicante (MZA), founded in 1856, was studied, which in 1875 inaugurated a line between Seville and Mérida, passing through the Sierra Norte de Seville, one of the Seville's important tourist destinations. In Seville, the group of cities crossed by the line of the Compañía de Ferrocarriles de Madrid, Zaragoza y Alicante (MZA), founded in 1856, was studied, which in 1875 inaugurated a line between Seville and Mérida, passing through the Sierra Norte de Seville, one of the Seville's important tourist destinations. Through historical research, followed by the descriptive, analytical and comparative method, the article presents some indicators resulting from the reading and apprehension of the territories studied, in order to implement future tourist-cultural planning actions.

Urban Planning Valentina Sur, Neuquén Capital

Oscar Alberto Inostrosa — 2025-01-26

In the city of Neuquén (Capital), Patagonia Argentina, the land uses of a productive peri-urban sector Colonia Valentina Sur change, allow in glow-density residential use with open urbanizations. Thus, the discussion on the protection of the area for food production culminates. Developed since 1930, primary fruit and vegetable production was affected by decades of crisis in the marketing of its exportable products, affecting the economic sustainability of producers. The situation makes closed residential developments viable since 2006.

The area of 2,000 hectares, with direct impact on 600 hectares, lacks accessibility and urban infrastructure. This document deals with the development of urban planning in which the municipal legislative body defines, a priori, urban indicators through ordinance. The Standard defines urban fabric with two low densities. Provides for the responsibility of the Municipal Executive Body to organize the development of services.

History of the occupation of the South bank of AMBA

Ana Pintus — 2025-01-26

The southern coast of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) reaches 48 km along the banks of the La Plata River. The area extends along the coast of the districts of Avellaneda, Quilmes, Berazategui, Ensenada and Berisso. Unlike the North Bank, characterized by a prominent ravine and a narrow strip of lowlands on the coast, the South zone comprises a longer coastal extension and a wide strip of lowlands. In this work we propose to analyze the successive processes of occupation of the Southern corridor of the AMBA, focusing particularly on the case of Punta Lara, starting from the new interest that the study of coastal areas gains as a result of the globalization of metropolitan Buenos Aires. , along with historical research that provides clues to understand the formation of these spaces.

ESTRATEGIAS PARA UNA MOVILIDAD SOSTENIBLE ENTORNO A CORREDORES DE TRANSPORTE PÚBLICO MASIVO EN LA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES

Maria de los Angeles Otero — 2025-01-26

The present project aims to investigate the effects that the implementation of a mode such as light rail would have on the mass public transport corridor of Line F for its surroundings, under an integrated planning of land use and sustainable mobility.

Such planning seeks to structure the territory and then promote the design of superblocks for the City of Buenos Aires within the framework of international best practices, such as the 15-minute city concept, which aims for a more compact city. To achieve this, the Index of Coverage of Daily Life Needs (ICNVC) is taken into consideration to analyze those variables that would benefit from the implementation of superblocks.

In the case of green spaces, for example, the area does not have total coverage of them. With the strategy of planning 30 km/h zones as a first step to generate a new mobility culture, and then planning superblocks, the area would be offered the possibility of designing green axes that connect with the nearest park (Parque Las Heras), thus partially compensating for the deficit of green spaces diagnosed by the ICNVC. Needless to say, this strategy includes the leveling and widening of sidewalks with more surface area for pedestrian mobility and other measures such as increasing safe routes for micromobility, all aimed at improving the urban and environmental quality of public space.

The integration of this strategy into the urban environment responds to a scenario in which an optimal urban structure is identified - framed by corridors of mass public transport (which would be enhanced by the future Line F) - to plan 30 km/h zones and superblocks.

Keywords: sustentability, zone 30, superblocks. mobility

WOMEN IN THE METROPOLIS OF CURITIBA AND MOBILITY IN COLOMBO

Maria Paula Beck — 2025-01-26

This article looks at gender inequalities in urban mobility, focusing on women living in Colombo, in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, who use public transport to get to work in the domestic services sector in Curitiba. The study analyzes the accessibility, inclusion and safety of public transport, pointing out the limitations faced by women. Using the "Commented Walk" method, the mobility conditions and challenges faced by this specific group were observed. The article highlights the importance of public policies that take into account the needs of women in the production of urban space and improving mobility, with a view to reducing the physical, symbolic and subjective barriers that impact on women's quality of life and participation in society.

SOBRE LAS FORMAS DE CRECIMIENTO DE UN BALNEARIO RIOPLATENSE.

Leonardo Altmann Macchio — 2025-01-26

This paper presents aspects of the urban growth of Punta del Este, the main resort of the Río de la Plata, in dialogue with its urban planning processes. An emerging dialogue is explored between the so-called tourism peripheries and forms of urban growth. Without approved urban plans as such, the spa's urban sprawl grew into a mosaic of garden neighborhoods of low-density luxury housing. At the same time, its central area developed high-rise buildings, usually contravening current urban regulations. The 1974 Ordinance of buildings encouraged the development of towers, was strictly applied and was linked to urban projects that configured an implicit plan in the context of a disproportionate construction “boom.”

Monitoring and evaluation Instruments with gender perspective

Dolores Biondi — 2025-01-26

This paper evaluates the results obtained from the methodology adopted to generate monitoring and evaluation instruments with a gender perspective in the riverside of Carmen de Patagones. These instruments show inequalities and contribute to feminist decision-making within urban planning. At the same time, they allow to identify areas for improvement and guidelines to follow, in order to generate more inclusive and equitable cities. The study was carried out within the framework of the Scholarships for the Encouragement of Scientific Vocations (EVC - CIN 2021 Scholarships), as part of the project "Integral Development Plan for the coastal strip of Carmen de Patagones".

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Alexis Joel Leiva — 2025-01-26

“This work proposes a study on the peri-urban area in Comodoro Rivadavia city, acquiring prominence as a transition space between the town, configured by residential islands, and the surrounding territory, characterized by the vastness of the Patagonian steppe and its extractive areas. Resulting in a complex periphery, with a mixture of incompatible uses (oil wells, neighborhoods, forest areas) with low urbanization standards, infrastructures, and public spaces. The way urbanization has occupied the natural territory begins to show environmental imbalances, acquiring a dimension of risk for the population, configuring a scenario of conflict. Finally, it seeks to investigate the ways of construction of this border territory and the origin of the imbalances that are visualized today, in order to formulate guidelines that, from a project approach, address and offer alternatives solutions to these problems with urban environmental-landscape quality as a tool for transformation and revaluation of the territory.”

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Ana Carolina Xavier Soares — 2025-01-26

This research investigates the development of Regional Planning, especially in the area of Urban and Regional Planning during the 1950s and 1960s, emphasizing innovation in this field. Based on Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm definition, she explores how paradigms shape the practices and ideas of professionals in the field. The rupture with established paradigms is highlighted, exemplified by the case of the 1966 Paraná Coastal Basic Plan. In addition to filling gaps in the historiography of Brazilian regional planning, the research seeks to understand how this plan challenges the conventional narrative by addressing environmental issues at a time of focus on industrialization. Using documentary analysis, the study focuses on the environmental concepts present in the plan, considering its contemporary relevance. This approach aims to recognize the uniqueness of regional planning in Paraná in its early decades.

TIPO URBANO EN AMÉRICA LATINA

Maria Rebeca Medina — 2025-01-26

¿Con qué enfoque se debería abordar hoy el estudio de la ciudad para facilitar su transferencia a la planificación urbana de la posmodernidad? Tomando como espacio geográfico y cultural del territorio latinoamericano, el tema-problema del proyecto se centró en la verificación de la pertinencia de la transferencia de las metodologías extra-regionales en el análisis de los ejemplos urbanos históricos representativos, para la adaptación y/o propuesta
de métodos propios que permitan la construcción de modelos urbanos locales sustentables. En el desarrollo de la investigación, a partir de la selección de ciudades latinoamericanas, se aplicaron análisis gráficos, en algunas de sus etapas históricas y según los siguientes autores: Kevin Lynch, Philippe Panerai, Rob Krier, Christopher Alexander y Milton Santos. Como resultado de este análisis, el modelo urbano debe sustentarse en esa especialización de la rugosidad del territorio y otros patrones a dicha escala, más los componentes inmateriales, que no suelen incorporarse.

ela PEQUENAS CIDADES, ESPAÇO E COLONIALIDADE

Bárbara Ellen Guimarães Armange — 2025-01-26

Esta escrita busca refletir sobre questões de método acionadas pela problemática do espaço em pequenas cidades a partir da ação da colonial-modernidade. Entendemos que a construção de uma metodologia se dá a partir do entendimento amplo da problemática, nesse sentido, construímos o texto em quatro partes. Num primeiro momento, apresentamos a questão das pequenas cidades e sua relação com a ideia de atraso e progresso como narrativas únicas de futuro; em seguida, introduzimos o espaço como nossa categoria de análise a partir de Doreen Massey (2008), buscando traçar relações com a colonial-modernidade; na terceira parte entra em cena o caso a ser abordado, portanto, apresentamos a pequena cidade de Brochier-RS e retomamos as questões sobre espaço de forma contextualizada para esta realidade; por último, chegando ao objetivo de nossa escrita, ensaiamos costuras teóricas acerca do método, convidando a abordagem cartográfica e narrativa para dar conta de encarar a problemática apresentada.

LA HUELLA DEL FERROCARRIL

Claudia Beatriz Rosa — 2025-01-26

El sistema ferroviario y su impacto en el paisaje de la pampa húmeda cordobesa constituye el tema de esta investigación. La implantación del ferrocarril generó un impacto sin precedentes no sólo como infraestructura
de servicios sino fundamentalmente, como motor de desarrollo económico y territorial. Actualmente, el sistema ferroviario se encuentra en un proceso de deterioro que altera el paisaje y pone en riesgo su valoración con la consiguiente pérdida de sus rasgos esenciales y de su continuidad histórica e identidad.
Esta investigación puede significar una oportunidad para generar posibilidades de preservación y conservación de las infraestructuras ferroviarias con el fin de incentivar y promover el desarrollo local.

Territorialized aesthetics of migrant habitat resistance

Bianca Apolinario Faria — 2025-01-26

In a context of increasing migratory flows in recent years, it has been possible to observe in Chile a broad cultural diversification manifested in particular processes of diversity and coexistence in cities, thus altering the everyday aesthetics of the territories. This research aims to comprehend how the material expressions of migrant habitat, within the framework of the transnational condition, engender forms of resistance to the dominant power in the territory. To achieve this, it is imperative to pay heed to the sensory aspects of habitat production, informed by a conception of aesthetics through the prosaic, distanced from the artistic, and much closer to daily life. It is concluded that territories amidst movements and burgeoning migrations harbor a dynamic capacity that can be articulated through resilient aesthetic manifestations, rooted in social processes associated with de-differentiation, invisibilization, and subordination.

Regulations, agents and construction projects in the construction of the urban landscape

Cecilia Raffa — 2025-01-26

In 1960, under the leadership of Enrico Tedeschi, the Special Planning and Building Code Commission prepared a report with a series of suggestions to think about the city in the future and define a definitive building code for the provincial capital. The city's first Building Code linked to architectural aspects and in relation to urban land uses, was approved a decade after that report and included some of its recommendations. We are interested in analyzing how the urban landscape changed from the implementation of that norm that intensified the construction of high-rise buildings, a practice limited within the urban history of Mendoza, due to its seismic condition. We will investigate the regulations and morphology of some of the building projects promoted. We will add as a source the local press and reports from the state agents involved, which reflect the city model that was projected.

Towards a grammar of the city

Renzo Dagnino — 2025-01-26

The present paper is a theoretical approach that seeks to explore the political and economic logic in the production of the city from one of its basic constituent elements, the urban layout, as part of the grammar of the city. Building upon Aureli (2018), a brief reflection is proposed on the effects of the processes of subdivision and appropriation of territory by the grid according to a quantitative logic, and how this would be the basis of many phenomena that we see as emergent, both in the past and in the present. Thus, we seek to explore the process by which when we talk about the foundational base proposed by the urban grid, it would not entail a neutral support that enables various ways of inhabiting the territory, but a spatial apparatus that systematically imposes, both de jure and de facto, the quantitative logics of capital.

Narratives of occupation

Julia Bianchi — 2025-01-26

In memories of the construction of Brasília, the process of formation of urban space was commonly portrayed by dualities: the planned and disorder, the modern and the popular or order and chaos. These are contrasts that, when juxtaposed with everyday experience, reveal dichotomies such as need and right. From this perspective, this research presents itself from a historiographical narrative sensitive to the corporeal dimension of events, with the memories, experiences and identities of women who experienced the deprivation of their rights and urgent needs. This work, therefore, intends to recount such memories embedded in the city's insurgent dialogues and their relations with the heritage discourse, as a right to the city, housing and citizenship.

The Square in Carioca Suburbs

marcio batista de sant anna — 2025-01-26

This work analyzes relationships between the urban quality standards of the Housing Complexes of the Retirement and Pension Institutes (IAPs) and the housing complexes from the housing policy of the Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV), which are decisive for the enrichment of social, cultural and services in suburban neighborhoods, with the public space designated as a square as one of the generators of this quality. Transformation of the square from an almost sporting equipment to a place for all time culture and leisure is studied to limit the underutilization of this category of free building space if its potential uses and functional, environmental and aesthetic attributes are not fully explored. The aim is to draw a comparison with the existing situation in housing complexes, regarding their isolation from the urban fabric and how it affects the quality and use of public and private spaces in the listed housing complexes.

VIVIENDA EN ALQUILER, ACCESIBILIDAD Y TRAYECTORIAS HABITACIONALES

Daniela Mariana Gargantini — 2025-01-26

In this context, marked by rising land prices, difficulty in accessing credit and financing in line with family savings, in addition to the persistence of patrimonialist housing policies, rental housing is today the only housing access option for a large percentage of the population. Even so, this modality presents serious restrictions. From an intersectional perspective, these restrictions are aggravated by inequalities of different origins. Female-headed and youth-headed renter households are groups with marked difficulties in renting. This paper exposes the factors that condition their possibilities of access to rental housing, as well as the housing trajectories deployed by these households in Córdoba, Argentina. It seeks to contribute to the promotion and management of policies of fair access to rental housing for these disadvantaged groups.

Territory of fragments and public space

Mara Andrea Sícoli — 2025-01-26

According to spatial practices, representations of space and spaces of representation generate a spatial production from interconnected instances in a specific lapse of time (Lefebvre, 1968). Practices as forms of generation and appropriation of space by different actors; spatial representations from the particular logic of each agent; spaces of representation as perception and experience of the resulting spaces and their meanings. From this approach, the research “Urban transformations and public policies-The production of peripheral residential space: agents and practices”, aims to carry out studies on housing policies, growth processes in accordance with urban planning, instruments and their interference in the formation of the territory, and the intervening actors. Dynamics such as extension, segregation, fragmentation are recognized, and the effects of these urban-housing processes are visualized in the southern periphery of Córdoba, focusing on the impacts on public space and its perception.

DISSEMINATING FEMINIST URBANISM

Anabella Roitman — 2025-01-26

Feminist urbanism is a political stance in the urban discipline, which implies considering gender perspective, equity, violence prevention, and other aspects.

This work takes as its base input a selection of 5 thematic guides, which offer tools for the dissemination of urban planning from a feminist perspective. A methodology based on 6 questions is proposed to carry out its review, diagnosis and comparison, which have as a precedent the comparative table between “Feminist Urbanism” and “Normative Urbanism” (Punt 6, 2019).

This work aims to verify it´s efficiency to reveal “where Feminist Urbanism is” within them, and identify what its main contributions are in the transmission of knowledge.

The experience allowed a critical approach to each guide, its efficiency in the transfer of concepts and tools associated with Feminist Urbanism, and enabled substantive comparisons to be made between them.

CITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Luis Babbo — 2025-01-26

This research will address the scenarios of interaction between the sanitation system and the urban expansion of Buenos Aires when the first three structural plans for this infrastructure were devised.

From a historical approach, this paper will investigate the role of sanitation in terms of the ideal city versus the real city; and it will examine the mutual relationship between city and infrastructure in the modernising process of Buenos Aires.

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Enrique Sebastián Fuchs Figueira — 2025-01-26

Exploration of the relationship between Jean Francois Lyotard's concept of metanarrative and Thomas Kuhn's paradigm, seeking through contrast new perspectives on both constructs with a view to their application in urban research.

traces of water

Nora Aguilera — 2025-02-12

ABSTRACT

This document reveals a set of readings on the irrigation canal system, which manifest its contribution to the development of a productive peri-urban area and its transformations based on the loss of function of said system and the reduction of areas served by irrigation, with the objective of investigating new meanings and roles of said infrastructure and its landscape in the rural and urban territory of Villamercedino. In methodological terms, various scales of approach are used, constructing a graphic document that allows identifying its particular functional, spatial and landscape features, using the drawing as a fundamental instrument for reading and understanding the system in question and its parts. Understanding that the construction of this set of inputs will allow, subsequently, to identify opportunities to articulate the traces of water with the territory it crosses, through a set of urban-landscape preservation and valuation projects.

Keywords: territory, infrastructure, landscape, peri-urban.Topic: landscape analysis and planning

Between territorial project and the domesti

Fernando Nicolás Vanoli — 2025-01-26

El trabajo busca profundizar la comprensión de la escala macro-territorial, atendiendo a la construcción histórica y los paisajes culturales que conforman la región del noroeste de Córdoba. La propuesta se basa en identificar formas de organización y configuración espacial que expresan modelos de orden territorial, a través de una mirada relacional que superpone la reconstrucción histórica temporal con la interpretación gráfica y cartográfica. El enfoque reconoce las intersecciones de diferentes historias, culturas y prácticas; la superposición de escalas macro (territorio) y micro (hábitat) permite evidenciar tramas relacionales que conforman sistemas de modos de vida y producción restringidos pero con potencial de revitalización. Se toma la noción de proyecto territorial como modo de poner en valor la dimensión física del territorio en clave proyectual, sin abandonar la riqueza del análisis y la interpretación en profundidad.

Practices of the common and women's body-territory at the Casa de Referência Mulheres Mirabal

Bárbara Rodrigues Marinho — 2025-01-26

The study deals with the urban occupation built by the Olga Benario Women's Movement, the Mirabal Women's Reference House (CRMM), which since 2016 has functioned as a reception and shelter space for women victims of violence, and its work in the city of Porto Alegre/Brazil. Through the urban and social experiences of the women who are or have been linked to the House, we will emphasize the practices of the common, associated above all with an ethic and exercise of a political nature that is configured in struggles and ways of life that daily start from cooperation, shared care, the collective and social use of property and the demand for another type of society. To this end, we will present the women's narratives about two practices to combat hunger carried out together with other social movements: the Diaristas Support Campaign and the construction of the community vegetable garden, a moment when the body-territory materializes in collectivity and no longer accepts a situation of misery and violence.

ENTRE MAR E MATA

Bianca Mauri — 2025-01-26

A pesquisa aborda a integração da fenomenologia da vida e do lugar, destacando a interação entre a paisagem cultural insular e os habitantes de Ilhabela, no litoral de São Paulo, na formação do sentido de lugar. Focando na experiência vivida e na afetividade, o estudo realça a influência das características insulares na identidade e memória dos moradores, frente às ameaças do desenvolvimento urbano e econômico. Analisa-se a dinâmica entre moradores locais e visitantes, investigando os impactos do turismo no território. Inspirando-se na experiência de Lanzarote nas Ilhas Canárias, a pesquisa qualitativa contempla os aspectos subjetivos da experiência humana e as consequências das ações imobiliárias, comprometendo a relação dos habitantes com a paisagem e fomentando a segregação social. Conclui-se que a manutenção dos vínculos entre o ser humano e a paisagem cultural é essencial para um desenvolvimento sustentável que valorize a identidade local e a coesão social.

METROPOLITAN FREE OPEN SPACES

Marcelo Ferreyra — 2025-01-26

The interest in the study of the role that the system of free open spaces can have, understood as an active component in territorial planning, led to focusing on the corridor of the Metropolitan Area of Córdoba (AMC), Argentina, most impacted in recent years decades due to the increase in urbanized area. The process required determining a set of procedures and methodological resources based on the recognition, analysis and assessment of the free open spaces of Sierras Chicas in order to achieve an inventory of them that expresses their diversity and contributes to determining their territorial role for the purposes of future planning of the area.

PLANIFICACIÓN URBANA SALUDABLE EN AMÉRICA LATINA

Bárbara Bonetto — 2025-01-26

In the context of the planning of Latin American cities, the challenges in implementing intersectoriality are barriers to the development of urban planning strategies aligned with the premises of healthy cities. Therefore, an approximation of narratives and terms of urban management and health promotion is necessary. This investigation seeks to contribute to the process of developing markers that facilitate the identification of interfaces between urban planning and health promotion in Latin American reality to support urban governance with equity and attention to the social determinants of health. This article was carried out in two phases, the first for data collection and the second for systematization and analysis, using the UN/WHO guide as a technical reference. The thematic markers for healthy cities highlighted by the results are related to thirty and one themes relevant to healthy urban planning.

The Entity of Space and Modern Urbanism in Argentine

Natalia Sofía Destefanis — 2025-01-26

The great transformation of architecture in the era of the heroic avant-garde is an inversion of the mass-space relationship, which moves from the limits towards the delimited or perceived spatial volume. It should be noted that, in turn, the emergence of the spatial problem in modern architecture inaugurates with the other arts - especially the fine arts - a new relationship that is noticeably closer and less metaphorical than in the past. This article has the purpose of addressing this phenomenon in the Argentine context, sponsored by Buenos Aires concretism, which establishes the synthesis of the arts from spatialism, in the urban scale and context. For this, paradigmatic cases of modern urbanism are selected in order to demonstrate how the dominance of space generates a type of order at the different project scales that is diametrically different from the type of complex, organic and aesthetic ordering of the pre-avant-garde city.

DIVERSIDAD DE TIPOS SOCIO-RESIDENCIALES EN LA EXPANSIÓN URBANA DE LA PLATA (BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA)

Pablo González — 2025-01-26

The research project “Collective practices of middle sectors for access to land and recent urban expansion in La Plata, Buenos Aires”, has as one of its objectives to identify and characterize the modalities in which land subdivision processes and urban-residential expansion on the periphery of the city of La Plata are being carried out in recent years. In order to contribute to this objective, a methodological procedure was built for the analysis of satellite images available in Google Earth and a reading was carried out in two time sections -2004 and 2022-, which allowed us to build an approach to the forms of urban expansion. residential area of the municipal territory. From this process of analysis and debate, a series of “socio-residential macro types” were identified that have led these transformations in the last 20 years. The work attempts to systematize the methodological approach carried out, and show some preliminary quantitative results.

The syntax of a segregated metropolis: Typologies of urban environments in the Metropolitan area of Concepción, Chile.

Daniela Villouta Gutiérrez — 2025-01-26

Urban segregation has been addressed mainly from the perspective of residential location, however, Moro et al (2011) indicate that it can also be observed from a dynamic approach. That is, the way people move during the day may reflect a new form of segregation that has not yet been studied. This article seeks to contribute methodologically to the measurement and representation of segregation from the potential of movement. To this end, it analyses how segregation has been constructed in the Metropolitan Area of Concepción (AMC) through its spatial component, which is constructed through the configuration of the built environment of the urban fabric using the theoretical and methodological tool Space Syntax. Finally, typologies of urban environments are proposed through geostatistics. The results contribute to the problematisation of socio-spatial segregation through its representation in space.

OPERATIONAL CATEGORIES IN PERI-CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA

Viviana Elizabeth Colautti Moll — 2025-01-26

This article refers to chapter 3, Urban Interstices, of the Doctoral Thesis, ETSAB.UPC, in the process of completion.

The question being answered is how to interpret the explosive growth of the city, especially in the peri-central area of the city of Córdoba. The objective is to reveal, by analyzing the urban form, an array of possibilities in the unoccupied or consolidated interstices. An insterstice is the result of a type of disorder. It is part of the urban land which was not optimized according to a previously planned intention. These are areas contiguous to others that are neatly ordered, which arises marked inequalities. As Borja points out (BORJA: 2003), the physical expression of the emerging city manifests a contradictory reality: on the one hand, it is fragmented, privatized in the new peripheries, and on the other hand, revalued historical centers and new centralities exist and survive. We analyze the interstices and their environment, with the idea in mind that better knowledge will lead to the possibility of discovering a new complex order and several possible instruments for interpreting morphological changes.

Keywords: peri-central neighborhoods, interstices, operational categories

Thematic block: urban morphologies

SERVICIOS ECOSISTÉMICOS (SE), INFRAESTRUCTURAS VERDES (IV) Y ORDENAMIENTO TERRITORIAL (OT)

Natacha Gordillo — 2025-01-26

ABSTRACT

This paper is about the summary of Ph.D. thesis in progress. The title is the ecosystem services provided by food production areas, as part of green infrastructures and provide territorial planning; the case study is the food region of the center of Córdoba (RACC), in the period 1984 and 2020. The last years, the growing of periphery of many Latin Americans cities are sprawl, in the case of Cordoba city, it manifests itself in its peri-urban and metropolitan area, affecting food production region. This transformation of the soil consequently brings a decrease in the areas of fruit and vegetable crops and/or displacement to other locations. Therefore, it is important that these concepts be considered in territorial planning.

Keywords: peri-urban, local food, ecosystems, planning

Topic: landscape analysis and planning

LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN OF FOOD PRODUCTION

Graciela Verónica Mantovani — 2025-01-26

The productive spaces of wineries and vineyards propose a particular line of inquiry and interpretation as a case of contemporary landscape design, which is interesting to expose through the practices of the Argentine case, thus this work recognizes a particular “type” of landscape and productive garden, the new vineyard-winery unit, both through the study of a set of works, the authors and their professional work, as well as the changes produced towards the end of the 20th century in the ways of producing and marketing viticulture with an open international market and the reception of foreign business investments; the emerging uses -among which wine tourism stands out- transformed and diversified the traditional programs and their disciplinary responses, and it is interesting to present analytically a set of recent projects at the farm level, located in rural areas of the provinces of Mendoza and Neuquén ( Argentina), belonging to the regions of Cuyo and Patagonia respectively.

Public space and corporeality

Juan Pablo Rizzo Giaccaglia — 2025-01-26

This presentation tackles the intricacies of public space, viewing it as a multifaceted concept that evolved significantly by the end of the 20th century. Adopting a relational approach, the aim is to move beyond narrow perspectives, employing methodologies and theoretical frameworks that seamlessly blend sociological and physical-spatial dimensions. By integrating various theories, the study delves into the realms of bodies, identity, and cultural configurations, understanding how these elements influence individuals’ interactions with public spaces. The theoretical framework is then applied to Nueva Córdoba, shedding light on social dynamics, perceptions, and strategies employed by young people from middle and upper-middle-class backgrounds in public spaces. The research seeks to uncover who inhabits these spaces and how, exploring community dynamics and strategies of differentiation. The qualitative methodology encompasses ethnography, participant observation, and focus groups for a comprehensive exploration.

Accessibility to rental housing

Natalí Peresini — 2025-01-26

Today, access to decent housing represents one of the greatest difficulties for most Argentinian households. Rental housing, under current conditions, is the only housing option or strategy for a large percentage of the population. This modality also presents serious restrictions, not only of an economic nature. There is a mismatch between availability and demand of rental housing for certain types of households. This paper presents an analysis of the housing typologies offered in the Córdoba city, Argentina during the first semester of 2022. From this, it seeks to account for the level of urban concentration-dispersion of the different housing typologies. The consideration and study of these variables is intended to generate contributions to the design of policies aimed at improving access to rental housing as a concrete alternative within housing policies.

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Luciana Buffalo — 2025-01-26

Three distinct epistemological planes that influence the understanding of the city are identified: the plane of order, related to urban planning and government; the plane of reflection and thought, guarded by academia and its various disciplines; and the plane of concrete materiality, where diverse interests of private and public agents are intertwined. The main objectives are to explore and understand the various manifestations and connections of the notion of urban space in different spheres, such as the state, professional, academic and business spheres. We seek to investigate how the understanding of urban space is articulated and presented in these spheres, recognizing the diversity of perspectives and approaches. In addition, we intend to identify and analyze the valuable contributions coming from the field of Geography that contribute to enrich both theoretical debates and professional practices related to contemporary urban spaces. This work is part of the research project "Productive restructuring in the digital economy in the City of Córdoba, Argentina, XXI century" (SECYT-CONSOLIDAR 2023-2027, Resolution RHCS 258-2023-UNC, directed by Dr. Luciana Buffalo).

Public green spaces and social housing

María Florencia Sosa — 2025-01-26

Housing policies seek to resolve the housing deficit but do not take into account the location, generally peripheral, with minimal infrastructure. Among the shortcomings presented by social housing neighborhoods, the lack of access to quality green spaces stands out, which would provide benefits in terms of health, environment and sociability. This paper analyzes, with a quantitative and qualitative methodology, the spatial distribution and quality of green spaces in the city of Córdoba (Argentina), since the hypothesis is supported that the beneficiaries of social housing have fewer opportunities to access a space. green. quality. It is shown that there is an unequal distribution of this resource in the city and that its quality is low in the neighborhoods analyzed. The conclusions provide reflections on housing policies and their spatial distribution that restrict access opportunities to satisfactory housing for the popular sectors, intensifying conditions of urban inequality

Family profile and ways of inhabit the metropolitan periphery

Liziane de Oliveira Jorge — 2025-01-26

This work discusses the context of social housing in outskirts territories beyond the necessities of the residents. It proceeds a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of the house units produced by the Urban Program of Unreliable Settlements, in the neighborhood of Campo Verde, stated on the municipality Viana, metropolitan periphery of Espírito Santo. This work splits technical support of the Federal University and the public power, and proceeds in a participative way, aiming to evaluate the results of the urban interventions integrated in the territory. The stage of POE was disposed as a stratified sample of the residentials units, prioritizing the differential family profiles and the expensed units. The methods and techniques used, were approved by Ethics Committee Research, it follows: questionnaire, semi structured interview and field survey. The diversity of the families array points out the challenges the provider women, the aging, and the physically handicapped people. It comproves that the inadequacy of the pattern house and the recluse lifestyle of the peripheral residents.

ACESSIBILIDADE NOS ESPAÇOS PÚBLICOS

Maria Isabel Imbrunito — 2025-01-26

This work addresses the importance of accessibility and inclusion in public open spaces, highlighting the influence of these places on the identity of cities. The literature review covers topics related to public spaces, universal design, accessibility, and walkability. As a case study, Barão do Rio Branco Square in Santos, which was recently revitalized, was selected for examination regarding the use of accessibility standards through a checklist, discussing the project and execution results obtained. Photographic records illustrate issues such as inadequate ramps, uneven surfaces, lack of accessible crossings, and inappropriate visual communication. Considering accessibility as an essential condition for the existence of public spaces, this work justifies the idea that the topic should be considered in the design of architectural projects rather than introduced afterwards as a supplementary design. The post-occupancy evaluation (POE), composed of a set of methodologies, can guide interventions more effectively, creating more inclusive urban spaces.

ASPECTOS CULTURAIS E MORFOLOGIA URBANA NA FRONTEIRA

Ricardo Batista Bitencourt — 2025-01-26

This article, stemming from research on border areas in Mato Grosso do Sul (BR), examines urban morphology and public space management in Bela Vista and Bella Vista Norte, border cities with Paraguay. Architectural production was analyzed, as well as the occupation of public space, focusing on the riverine areas of the Apa River, the de facto border. Through bibliographic review, field data collection, and analysis of satellite image fragments used for map-making, the study identifies different types and processes that have defined the evolution of the cities, resulting in the loss of character of historical buildings. Discrepancies in environmental management between the two countries were identified in the occupation of public space. As a result, it is crucial to implement appropriate urban policies and adopt an integrated and contextually adapted approach to the administration of border areas in order to prevent the cultural deterioration of the cities.

HIPÓTESIS METODOLÓGICA PARA EL ORDENAMIENTO DE TERRITORIOS TURÍSTICOS

Mónica Martínez — 2025-01-26

This presentation is part of the research project of the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the National University of Córdoba: “Territories, Nature, Culture: The Environmental and Landscape Approach for the Planning of Tourist Territories in the face of Climate Change.” This research aims to address the environmental and landscape approach for the planning of tourist territories, as an action against climate change, to strengthen their identity and tourist vocation, from emerging to sustainable and resilient territories. This presentation represents a first advance that is organised into three stages, the first is an approach to the theoretical-conceptual framework of the research, natural and cultural resources, environment and landscape and its impact on climate change, the second stage constitutes a first study of the background of territorial planning comparing methodological developments of cases related to this research, and finally some methodological approaches are tested, to accompany the process of territorial planning from the environmental and landscape approach, to address the object of the research and its application in the case studies.

COMERCIO ELECTRÓNICO

Mateo Gamba — 2025-01-26

El acelerado crecimiento que experimentó el comercio electrónico en la última década dio origen a un proceso de reestructuración territorial de la actividad comercial minorista, tanto a nivel global como local. Dicha actividad, a partir del uso de plataformas digitales y tecnología 4.0, a fundado una nueva manera en que oferentes y demandantes interactúan en el tiempo y el espacio, modificando los criterios de localización de los mismos en la ciudad y el territorio. El presente trabajo expone una propuesta metodológica para el análisis cuantitativo de la distribución territorial de la oferta y la demanda minorista asociada al comercio electrónico B2C, tomando como caso de estudio la Ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina. En el mismo se pretende analizar el nivel de correlación de un grupo de variables urbano-territoriales con las demandas de localización de los actores intervinientes, con el fin de comprender los factores que influyen en la conformación de esta nueva distribución espacial.

VULNERABILITY, RISK PERCEPTION AND RESILIENCE TO FLOODS

Florencia Senise — 2025-01-26

The work addresses risk perception and the construction of resilience in precarious neighborhoods under environmental threat. Various questions guide the study: a vulnerable population exposed to floods, Does it perceive the risk but must expose themselves to danger to access the soil? Does it perceive the risk as a natural condition of their environment? How do they build resilience? Does it exists (per se) or is it acquired with the water and/or housing emergency? To answer them, the behavior of the neighbors of an Informal Settlement of Arroyo del Gato who faced the 2013 flood of the La Plata District and who, due to the need to build a structural hydraulic work, were relocated, is analyzed. Through a semi-structured interview, different perspectives on the matter were explored: the state, the academic and the community. This instrument can be replicated in other informal settlements in danger, to know the status of the situation and collaborate in risk management.

O caso do município de Suzano sob a perspectiva do Urbanismo Feminista

Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima — 2025-01-26

The article, inserted in the context of the Technical Cooperation Agreement between the City Hall of Suzano and the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (São Paulo, Brazil), has as its main objective to produce subsidies in the context of the review of the Suzano Master Plan, specifically in relation to the redesign of urban areas close to municipal schools, from the perspective of feminist urbanism. The study is based on a bibliographical review and on-site visits to Jardim Quaresmeira II, a 6,985m² area located close to two municipal schools: "José Braz Neto" and "Jardim Quaresmeira". Finally, the article highlights specific criteria from the perspective of feminist urbanism, based on the research of Gomes (2023), Leão (2022) and Merli (2018), which, if taken into account in the design of these environments, would bring improvements for women and children Of region.

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Guido Paredes Michea — 2025-01-26

The research consists of a historical urban study to analyze the feasibility of nominating the Angelmó sector and its market as a “Typical Zone”, based on the definitions and selection criteria of Chile’s monuments law and regulations.

A methodological framework is proposed, based on the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscapes from 2011 (UNESCO), but with a morphogenetic analysis approach that incorporates the theoretical variable of time in the cultural analysis, recognizing the different temporalities in the city’s material construction.

The research findings indicate that Angelmó does not meet the sufficient requirements to be considered as a “Typical Zone”. It is recommended to conduct a study of Angelmó and its market’s intangible heritage, and to integrate it as an important variable in future urban studies of the sector.

FEMINIST URBANISM AND RIGHT TO THE CITY

Marianela Priori Saenz — 2025-01-26

the City around the planning of more inclusive cities and explore how the synergy between these concepts can enrich integration policies by highlighting the influence of everyday life, fair access to habitat, the use of public space and citizen participation, all based on the qualitative analysis of socio-housing public policies led by women in local management.

As a result, it is revealed that the studied nocions are vital elements for the urban planning of inclusive cities. The active presence of women in decision-making roles has catalyzed innovations in local management, allowing to introduce the Gender Perspective and the Right to the City in the process of elaborating more inclusive socio-housing public policies.

Keywords: Feminist Urbanism, Right to the City, Social inclusion, Citizenship

Topic: Territorial analysis and project

Water and city

Zanandra Falcão — 2025-01-26

This article investigates the relationships between water and the city, utilizing Urban Morphology as a theoretical and methodological framework. The objective is to identify forms and formal relationships between water shapes and urban design. The theoretical foundation draws from Kropf (2009), Oliveira (2018), Botechia (2017), and Fernandes (2014), emphasizing the morphological process concepts of Conzen (1960) and the contributions of Dias Coelho (2014), which describe transformation, adaptation, and stagnation processes (Conzen, 1960), as well as addition, superposition, and sedimentation (Dias Coelho, 2014). The municipality of Linhares (Espírito Santo, Brazil) known as the “City of Waters”, with 78 lagoons, is the empirical object due to its enriching context. The methodological protocol comprises three stages: theoretical investigation, elementalization of forms, and analysis of formal relationships. This study aims to enhance understanding of morphological processes and relationships between water shapes and urban design, given their historical, environmental, and social significance.

Keywords: Urban Morphology, water shapes, lagoons, urban design.
Topic: Urban Morphology

From the sustainable quality approach to urban resilience

María Alejandra Charras — 2025-01-26

The paper presents the results of the research project: "Emerging Territories as Spaces of Opportunity in Urban-Metropolitan Processes. Assessment of the peri-urban from the perspective of sustainable quality for the qualification of habitat-dwelling in the metropolitan region of Córdoba", whose general objectives were: a) to determine the territorial transformations and their environmental effects in the peri-urban territories emerging from the dynamics of urban-metropolitan expansion of Córdoba; b) articulate criteria and approaches of sustainable quality and urban-territorial resilience for the analysis and evaluation of territorial, urban and architectural design products, aimed at generating guidelines for habitat management and production; c) Establish the potential of peri-urban territories in the different dimensions of sustainability, for the improvement of the quality of habitat/dwelling.This work conceptually and methodologically redefined the metropolitan regions and in particular the peri-urban territory of the northwest and southwest arc of the Cordoba Region (RC).

Heritage and Legislation

Mariana Ferreira Ramos Jubé — 2025-01-26

The aim of this article is to identify the gaps in the preservation of the residential blocks of the superblocks found in Brasília's Pilot Plan, based on an analysis of the heritage regulations - Law No. 3.751/1960, District Decree No. 10.829/1987, Ordinance No. 04/1990, Ordinance No. 314/1992, District Decree No. 30.303/2009, Ordinance No. 166/2016 and Ordinance No. 421/2018 - and to present the current implications resulting from the lack of specific regulations for the built ensemble. In order to achieve the proposed objective, the work was structured in two parts: firstly, addressing Brasília's peculiar form of preservation and, subsequently, identifying the gaps in legislation. As a result, the purpose is to identify which factors have led to difficulties in understanding and managing the Conjunto Urbanístico de Brasília (CUB), and what are the weaknesses of the urban planning guidelines presented in the regulations for maintaining Brasília's residential heritage.

DESIGNING METROPOLITAN PERIPHERIES

María Elisa Pulido — 2025-01-26

This work constitutes a partial progress of the project Peri-urban Territories. Plans, practices, and projects in the territorial construction of the South Zone of the city of Córdoba, which aims to understand the impact of peri-urbanization and metropolization on the southern periphery of Córdoba. Based on the importance of academic work and the multi-scalarity of the territory, two instances are proposed: the selection, compilation, and systematization of works by students of the course Urbanism IIB (FAUD-UNC) according to the "urban-territorial systems" addressed with greater emphasis in each case; and the creation of a catalog of projects at the territorial scale. The objectives of this work are, on the one hand, to identify design criteria to address the urban challenges of the southern periphery of Córdoba; and on the other hand, to constitute an analytical-propositional instrument to integrate it into the teaching and practice of urban planning in the local context.

the Operating territories for the metropolis of Córdoba

Pablo Rodolfo Castro Dominguez — 2025-01-26

A territory is presented, converted into a logistical topographic surface. Metropolitan nodes extend their infrastructures, tensioning the landscape, ensuring control of water and food. The green belt of the city of Córdoba, which supplied fruit and vegetable foods to its population, is undergoing transformation. Reducing its surface and relocating in a territorial strategy of national extension. The productive area of the metropolis of Córdoba is supported by some nearby peri-urban areas. In this context, the Río Cruz del Eje basin is located. A mixed urban-rural-natural area, with the capacity to produce and manage local fruit and vegetable foods for the city of Córdoba. However, at the same time, it lacks a structuring territorial vision that guides and regulates the actions of its key actors. Three scalar categories are proposed for future environmental territorial planning of the basin, taking water dynamics as a focus.

SPANISH SPANISH

Walter Castellan — 2025-01-26

Theoretical and operational research, of guidelines development, instruments and projective devices for the organization, projection and sustainable management of the territory, at three different scales (macro, meso, micro) emerging from the analytical studies of characterization and assessment of Landscape Units, registered through landscape catalogs to develop a Green Infrastructure Program that provides ecosystem services and improves risk management, urban resilience and the restoration of degraded ecosystems due to the advance of new urbanizations that have altered the City Landscape of Rio Ceballos, weakening its natural, cultural and heritage values, hidden by the dynamic of transformation of the territory, putting the ecological and social structure at risk. Finally, projective operations of new operational landscapes are tested, as a hybridization between ecology and technique that reorganize and conduct energy and matter, leading to new combinations and territorial potentials.

Impacts of Real Estate Development on the Preservation of the Paulista’s Cultural Heritage

Stela Camargo Da Dalt — 2025-01-26

The study examines the real estate sector's pressure on preservation councils in São Paulo (BR), addressing a specific case of loosening landmark preservation guidelines in favor of urban development. Analyzing the proposal to construct five towers on the historical site of Comgás, in the city's central area, approved despite technical objections, highlights the political influence and economic interests involved. This approval will promote urban verticalization at odds with heritage protection. The study underscores the predatory urbanization that erases historical traces for “progress”, raising the discussion about power asymmetries leading to the destruction of the city's history and culture in favor of urban expansion, with the complicity of the Public Administration. The urgency of more sustainable and socially just urban practices is emphasized in the face of threats to the preservation of historical and cultural heritage in a climate crisis scenario.

HIDROELECTRICIDAD Y CIUDAD

Fernando Williams — 2025-01-26

Between the 1940s and 1990s, and as part of developmentalist policies, a series of hydroelectric dams were built in Argentine Patagonia. They deeply transformed the sites and basins where they were located and the demographic growth brought about by its construction had an urban correlate that was evident in three different types of settlements: temporary encampments to house workers and technicians during the construction, new towns for the families of the dam staff and, finally, new towns erected to relocate those affected by the reservoirs. The purpose of this paper is to examine a series of projects linked to these three different types of settlement, construct their history, characterize their layouts and reflect on the urban planning ideas behind their layouts. The selected cases are limited to the so-called Comahue region where most of the dams were built.

POLÍTICA HABITACIONAL Y CRECIMIENTO URBANO.

Mónica Bustos Peñafiel — 2025-01-26

The morphotypological analysis methodology developed in the Public Housing Workshop of the seventh semester of the Architecture career of the University of Chile is presented. The aim is for students to highlight the importance of public housing design, not only in architectural terms, but also in terms of interscale, understanding project decisions at the neighbourhood scale as their contribution to the formation of the city and the quality of life of its inhabitants. The exercise breaks down various Chilean residential projects at different times in their history, from three dimensions: the project intention of the complex residencial, the architectural typologies and the resulting urban form. The results show how, conditioned by the different political, social and economic contexts, as well as by the different forms of use and possibilities of consolidation, the configuration of our cities is, on the one hand, the expression of the various sociotypological models and, on the other, the manifestation of social processes over time.

Children's participatory design in public spaces in Toluca

Andrea Robles Cruz — 2025-01-26

The problem statement focuses on the exclusion of boys and girls in the design of public spaces, despite advancements in promoting their participation. The research objective is to incorporate the perspective of children in the design of public spaces through Participatory Action Research (PAR). The methodology employed includes qualitative methods such as semi-structured interviews and PAR workshops. Preliminary results reveal that children have clear opinions about public spaces and express preferences and concerns. A gender difference in space usage is observed, but both boys and girls show interest in improving the park and making it more inclusive. The willingness of parents and community delegates to engage in the process underscores the importance of considering the voices of children in urban planning to create more livable and equitable environments.

THE PIRACICABA RIVER VALLEY

Marina de Cássia Marchini — 2025-01-26

In the state of São Paulo, Brazil, the Piracicaba River Valley stands out for its agro-industry, cultural diversity, industrialization and metropolization. During the imperial period, its territorial resources formed the traditional "Sugar Quadrilateral". The soil suitable for planting sugar cane received attention from landowners, financial incentives, public policies and urban-regional planning, resulting in the technological development of sugar-energy and agribusiness, overriding historically established traditional cultures. Despite this, the territory is facing conflicts and the imminent disappearance of the legacy of caipira culture. The time frame of the research is the beginning of sugarcane plantations and the change in the natural landscape, investigating the results currently observed. This article aims to present evidence of the potential for implementing heritage parks along the lines of the methodology used by the Departament d'Urbanisme, Territori i Paisatge (UTP) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, based on: heritage preservation, education, economic development and leisure. The aim is to help adopt the concept in São Paulo's urban planning debate.

The street as a resource

P. Sebastián Cortez Oviedo — 2025-01-26

This paper addresses the reappropriation of public space in the central area of Córdoba between 2020 and 2023, driven by municipal policies and private actions in the context of digital transformation. It explores urban platformization and mediatization and their impacts on emerging forms of social appropriation of the street, identifying three stages: emergence, consolidation, and de-mediatization. It problematizes convergences and divergences in the promotion, consumption, and social appropriation of public space, highlighting the role of digital technologies and cultural consumption. The work's approach is descriptive-relational, using participant observation, shadowing, and segmented analysis as main methods of data collection and integration.

Planning Metropolitan Regions in the Governance Era

Pablo Elinbaum — 2025-01-26

Despite the abundance of theories on metropolitan regions, there is a notable scarcity of research focused on metropolitan planning, particularly in the Latin American context. These studies tend to overlook the wide diversity of institutional frameworks within a region that is commonly perceived as homogeneous, as well as the genuine innovations present in this context. In order to enrich the existing literature, a detailed analysis of the instrumental, institutional, and procedural dimensions of metropolitan planning in Latin America is proposed, through a comparative case study that will focus on the three largest urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and São Paulo.

AVALIAÇÃO PÓS-OCUPAÇÃO DA ESTRATÉGIA DOTS EM PORTO ALEGRE

Rodrigo Dalenogare Jaskowiak — 2025-01-26

With the worsening of climate change, it has become imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), demanding the rapid decrease in the use of fossil fuels. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to promote a sustainable urban mobility matrix. The Transit Oriented Development (DOT) strategy provides guidelines for a city guided by this new mobility matrix. The methodology enables the evaluation of developments through scores according to different principles. This study selected two developments to assess their surroundings for the Walking Principle (ITDP, 2017). The study quantified and analyzed the scores of the three objectives outlined for the theme: crossings, visually active and physically permeable facades, and shade and shelter. The evaluation sought to ascertain the treatments given to the walking mode in developments of different socioeconomic natures, aiming to establish a relationship between the population's profile and walkability.

From informal settlements to popular neighborhoods: towards socio-urban integration?

Evelyn Abildgaard — 2025-01-26

This work is part of a research carried out within the framework of an ongoing doctoral thesis. The objective is to know and compare the implemented policies, the degree of articulation between the different government levels and the role of social organizations, taking as a case study La Rubita, one of the most paradigmatic popular neighborhoods of the city of Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina). The methodology is qualitative-quantitative, based on analysis of satellite images, legislation and journalistic information, in addition to interviews with members of technical teams and neighborhood leaders. The results presented arise from analyzing the process of residential expansion that occurred in La Rubita, from its beginnings as an informal settlement to the implementation of the Socio-urban Integration Program. The aim is to investigate whether the territorial policies implemented go beyond a simple change of name: from informal settlement to popular neighborhood and if they really promote social integration.

Rururban Development Nodes an alternative for territorial sustainability

Oswaldo Mesías Rosas — 2025-01-26

Territorial planning in Colombia has been predominantly urban-centric, leaving suburban and rural areas neglected. Unplanned urban sprawl continues to expand unchecked, imposing urban patterns in rural areas, affecting ecosystems, rural productivity, and social fabric. This article presents research funded by the University of Nariño (Colombia), focusing on the corregimental population centers of Cabrera, San Fernando, and La Laguna in the municipality of Pasto. The phenomenon of rururbanization, integrating urban and rural elements, is studied. In this regard, a Rural-Urban Development Node is proposed as an alternative to improve the quality of life of its original inhabitants, rural productivity, and food sovereignty. The research analyzes territory occupation and proposes criteria for rural sustainability. The study seeks to contribute to rural-urban planning in Pasto and define key characteristics of this development node.

Keywords: rural communities, rural inhabitant, development node, rururbanization.

Thematic focus: territorial analysis and project.

MAPEANDO O ALUGUEL DE TEMPORADA VIA PLATAFORMAS

Aline Cristina Fortunato Cruvinel — 2025-01-26

The research presents the process of data collection and mapping from Airbnb and Booking.com platforms in Rio de Janeiro, through the use of different digital tools. The aim is to understand how the practice of short-term rentals via digital platforms spatializes in the studied city, considering its particularities. For this purpose, the theoretical-conceptual framework is presented, framing such practices as examples of "platform urbanism." Subsequently, the methodological path that resulted in GIS-based mappings, using pre-existing data and data from web scraping in Python language, assisted by artificial intelligence, is outlined. As results, maps synthesizing the practice of short-term rentals in the context of Rio de Janeiro and a preliminary analysis of the obtained data are presented. These results contribute to the advancement of research on the topic in the Brazilian scenario and broaden the debate conducted on a global scale.

A FORMA URBANA DE CIDADES GÊMEAS SITUADAS EM LIMITES GEOGRÁFICOS

Ramon Fortunato Gomes — 2025-01-26

The study's research object is the cities Porto Murtinho (BR) located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and Carmelo Peralta (PY) located in the Department of Alto Paraguay, separated by the Paraguay River, international border and geographic limit. With a port character, the region was promoted by the yerba mate industry, with urban form rich in history and different forms of territorial occupation. The research seeks to identify references to territorial occupation and responses to the different morphological formations observed in the border area of Mato Grosso do Sul, also to understand the implications that geographic and territorial limits have on the spatial configuration of the border area. The method uses bibliographical research, on-site visits and analysis of images available on Google Earth. Thus, it was possible to understand that socio-spatial limits helped in the spatialization of urban space and in the different ways of occupying the territory, reinforcing the hypotheses constructed throughout the research.

La Feria Fluvial de Valdivia. El corazón multicolor de la ciudad.

ELISA CORDERO-JAHR — 2025-01-26

The Valdivia River Fair (Chile) is analyzed from an urban, landscape and architectural perspective, and it is argued that it is a significant example of an urban space for citizen encounters in southern Chile. From the urban point of view, the fair is highlighted as a central place of the city and the fluvial waterfront of the Calle-Calle and Valdivia rivers. It also analyzes the strong links of the fair with the surrounding landscape, both urban and natural. Architecturally, the analysis focuses on the fair as a large covered and open space, with multiple events and in permanent transformation. The space of the fair is analyzed as a large multicolored awning that generates a specific chromatic atmosphere, a colored public space that has marked the daily pulse of the city since time immemorial.

The expansion of the metropolitan centrality axis in São Paulo

Renata Priore Priore Lima — 2025-01-26

The implementation of Chucri Zaidan Avenue, located in the southern part of the city of São Paulo, continues the powerful financial center formed by Faria Lima and Berrini avenues and has caused a rapid transformation of the area, which is strengthened as a metropolitan linear center. In view of this phenomenon, this study aims to identify and analyze the spatial changes, the dynamics of organization and expansion of the city, their impacts on the urban landscape, on collective spaces and on its urbanity. The methodology used includes the review of the urban literature, the characterization of the study area, the analysis of the projects implemented in the area and the problematization of the process of architectural, urbanistic and landscape transformation and its relationship with the collective spaces of the city. As a result, it seeks to contribute to the reflection about the production of the contemporary city, its spatial structures and social dynamics.

WATERS AND FACTORIES

Lina Mayorga — 2025-01-26

This article explores the transformation of the industrial cultural landscape along the Magdalena River, specifically from Girardot to Honda, with the aim of characterizing this change and highlighting the relationship between the valley, the river, its driving force, and the presence of industrial infrastructures. The interaction between biotic and anthropic factors that have influenced the landscape transformation in various historical stages of industrialization is addressed. Graphical and cartographic analysis is crucial to demonstrate the causal connections between significant events and the current configuration of the industrial cultural landscape. The results identify and categorize industrial remnants that reflect the influence of the Magdalena River on the country's industrial development in the first half of the 20th century, as well as the delimitation of landscape units to understand the interactions between natural and anthropic factors.

VIADUCTS OF SÃO PAULO

Maria Isabel Camañes Guillén — 2025-01-26

This article discusses the growth of São Paulo city through viaducts, emphasizing them as morphological elements. The analysis compares historical data and cartographic revisions, examining the evolution of the city's bridges and viaducts. It relies on structural analysis using municipal cadastre maps and official documents, creating a map of the bridges and viaducts' development correlated with urban expansion maps. The article identifies four significant historical actions: overcoming barriers, modernizing the city, developing the urban network, and connecting peripheral areas. It highlights the crucial structural role of bridges and viaducts throughout São Paulo's growth from 1892 (the emergence of the first viaduct, “Viaduto do Chá”) to 2020, the completion year of the doctoral investigation.

GÉNERO Y ADVERSIDAD AMBIENTAL: DESIGUALDADES AGUDIZADAS

Eugenia Cerrone — 2025-01-26

International organizations assure that we are going through a socio-economic and environmental crisis at a global level. On the one hand, there are increasingly frequent episodes of droughts, floods, and high temperatures, and on the other, social and territorial inequalities have deepened. In this context, the United Nations Organization maintains that, during environmental catastrophes, the people most affected are women and girls. The objective of this research is to analyze, incorporating a feminist perspective, the impacts generated by recent flooding events. The study area will take place in F Municipality, because it is one of the most affected places by floods and, in turn, is characterized by having different antagonistic urban contexts where these episodes frequently occur. In summary, the research reveals how the gaps in gender inequality are deepened in situations of climate catastrophe.

DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES

Carolina Lecuna Piatti — 2025-01-26

It can be ventured that urban planning is still done from a rigid written normative context, 
which largely contrasts with reality, making it difficult to establish a planning procedure 
capable of accompanying the vocational processes of the territory. 
This research aims to recognize the dynamic landscapes of the metropolitan periphery area, 
to delve into the territorial processes, both underlying and evident, know them in depth, graph them, 
demonstrate them and thus suggest regulatory mechanisms that accompany these processes. 
The selected territory is interface, heterogeneous in its physical composition, of maximum dynamism, 
located in the metropolitan east of the city of Montevideo. 
Its is explored, from the Landscape Fractions, defined as complex territorial frames that expose 
specific, characteristic and identity landscapes. 
A record of the essential components of the Landscape Fractions is systematized, allows their physical 
manifestations to be interpreted, finding the hidden pattern from which to intervene in a sensitive way..

METODOLOGÍA DEL ESPACIO PÚBLICO, PROGRAMA DE REGENERACIÓN URBANA DEL IMU

Blanca Estela Corona Ruiz — 2025-01-26

In 2017 the Municipal Institute of Urbanism of Barcelona (IMU) started a Urban Regeneration Program (PRUB), to study the most vulnerable residential areas in Barcelona, based on four research phases, prioritizing on corrective actions in the building. One of the biggest urban challenges is to achieve active and involved citizen participation in the urban planning process. For this reason, the article focuses on defining criteria and guidelines for the development of a comprehensive urban regeneration proposal for future stages, unifying ambits of building environment and public space in the Besòs i el Maresme and Trinitat Vella neighborhoods. This research is developed through a mixed methodology, which includes technical-participatory tools and three-dimensional guidelines. Through field visits, citizen surveys, interviews with the person in charge of the IMU and having as a reference the POUM (Municipal Urban Planning Plan of Cadaqués).

Keywords: Urban Regeneration, Vulnerability, Besòs i el Maresme y Trinitat Vella.

Topic: Public space.

POLOS VAREJISTAS DE RUA COMO QUALIFICADORES DO ESPAÇO PÚBLICO Uma investigação sobre o Polo do Distrito de Perus

larissa garcia campagner — 2025-01-26

This paper is the result of academic research that studies the Street Retail Centers in the city of São Paulo and aims to investigate and analyze one of the city's 90 Centers, the Perus Center, located in a peripheral region. As an investigative methodology, the analysis is carried out through the application of 12 indices developed by the group, which form the IQUP (Quality Index of Public Spaces in Street Retail Centers), in addition to face-to-face interviews carried out with local traders. As a result, the article analyzes aspects that may have contributed to the current formation of the Perus hub as a relevant retail concentration for the city and its region, and seeks to contribute to the debate on the influence of commercial territories in peripheral regions and with high social vulnerability indexes as a factor for the quality of urban life, by creating spaces for public use that are more accessible to a wide portion of the population.

Urbanisation Along The Nile's Canyon-Delta Junction

Aleix Saura-Vallverdú — 2025-01-26

The rise of Cairo as a megalopolis in the last four decades has caused a division of the Nile’s canyon and delta ecosystems, as the city grows in the key region where one ecosystem shifts onto another. Urban development has impermeabilized this juncture, losing crucial eco-system benefits as the river’s environmental continuity is undermined. A remote-sensing, decade-by-decade study offers us the chance to obtain a cohesive view of the changes undergone by the city, which are contrasted with a granular analysis of the specific developments that explain Cairo’s expansion. Highlighting key urban phenomena in relation to the whole, the logics behind the urbanisation of this territory can surpass a binomial study of built or fertile, as “mixed” urban green spaces further the debate on the importance of the restoration of the Nile as a green corridor.

Ravine is an Architecture

Alejandro André Salazar Torres — 2025-01-26

This essay is developed from the analysis of the ravines in Guatemala and how have they structured our cities since pre-colonial times. Ravines contain a great biodiversity, contribute water to the territory and help to regulate temperatures, nevertheless they have never been valued for their benefits, but rather are identified as residual, dividing, problematic and dangerous spaces, therefore the society that inhabits them has never developed an identity with the landscape. The objective of this research is to visibilize the ravines of Guatemala City in order to rediscover their role as ecotones and socio-environmental devices. To achieve this, the work proposes a change of record of their negative conception through the intentional review of their values by methodologically developing an Atlas, seeking an historical, ecosystemic and social understanding to conceive them as a structuring entity of the territory.

Urban Waterfront Planning:

Paula Vale de Paula — 2025-01-26

Waterfronts hold enormous potential to drive the change that some important territories require considering the multiple challenges they face today. Their past of enormous importance to the urban economy is now matched by their centrality to the changes that need to occur in cities. They are therefore territories that have played different roles over time and whose urban planning has changed. In this context, this study aims to explore and understand scientific production about the urban planning of waterfronts. To this end, the study was conducted using bibliometric analyses. The bibliometric analyses were divided into performance analysis and scientific mapping. The performance analyses show the topicality of the subject, the predominance in terms of countries, institutions, and authors, and terms of field of study and journals. The scientific mapping carried out through co-word analysis allows us to understand the main topics covered in the literature on urban waterfront planning.

Sustainable micro drainage and its application in the transformation of garden neighborhoods

Renata Priore Priore Lima — 2025-01-26

The use of rain gardens and other nature-based solutions in contemporary projects indicate changes in the way cities are built in relation to the needs of adaptation to climate change. Within this theme, this article addresses the possibilities of applying sustainable drainage systems as microdrainage strategies and environmental qualification of consolidated urban fabrics, based on the study of garden neighborhoods in São Paulo. The methodology adopted includes the literature review, the urban study of a garden neighborhood, Vila Ipojuca, carried out from cartographic bases, aerial images and other official documents such as subdivision plans and drainage projects; field visits, and urban design exercises carried out with students in workshops. Preliminary results indicate that the application of sustainable microdrainage typologies, combined with traditional ones, contributes to greater technical and environmental efficiency of infrastructures and the urban environment quality.

Los determinantes de las viviendas desocupadas en Montevideo.

Alicia Rubini — 2025-01-26

En el contexto del debate sobre el déficit habitacional y la creciente segregación socioeconómica en Montevideo, este estudio se propone examinar los determinantes de las viviendas desocupadas en la ciudad. Mediante un enfoque cuantitativo, se analiza la evolución de la ocupación de las viviendas particulares en relación con la dinámica poblacional y los precios inmobiliarios. Se realizan análisis estadísticos y georreferenciación de datos de Censos de Población y Viviendas, Encuestas Continuas de Hogares e Indicadores Inmobiliarios del Instituto Nacional de Estadística del Uruguay. Además, se utilizan datos de una encuesta específica realizada por la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Universidad de la República, Uruguay). Los resultados señalan que, aunque la vacancia habitacional excepcionalmente alta registrada en 2004 ha mostrado ajustes, persiste un conjunto de viviendas desocupadas que requieren intervención mediante políticas públicas para integrarlas a un uso habitacional.

The Morphology of the American Garden in São Paulo

Rita Miréle Patron Chaves — 2025-01-26

Jardín América, the first garden district of the city of São Paulo, has been legally protected by the Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage of the State of São Paulo (Condephaat) since 1985. This registry includes the proposal for the preservation of its morphological and landscape characteristics. Since its conception, based on the garden city model of Ebenezer Howard, the district designed by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin (1913) was responsible for establishing an urban pattern, locally known as garden district, capturing the peculiarities of the local culture for the elaboration of strategies, and constituting an urban reference for the city. This article proposes a historical reading of the creation and evolution, contributing to the conceptualization based on the model of modern urbanism, leading to the process of its recognition as an icon of the historical heritage of the city of São Paulo.

Urban renewal and gentrification. An analysis from the Feminist Urbanism.

Karen Sicua Bogotá — 2025-01-26

Bogotá is currently in the process of implementing the District System of Care Blocks (SIDICU) and integrating a Care Policy aimed at ensuring Territorial Planning that contributes to redressing the social debt owed to women, girls, boys, and individuals with care needs. This involves adapting and establishing the necessary infrastructural facilities to consolidate Care Networks within the city. Furthermore, there is a concerted effort towards educational initiatives designed to engender shifts in societal perceptions and to redistribute unpaid care responsibilities. However, Bogotá is also experiencing significant demands for Urban Renewal processes and Strategic Interventions necessitating the transformation of public spaces and existing infrastructure. These processes carry the potential for gentrification, which can result in the displacement and segregation of certain demographics, with women often disproportionately affected. Thus, there is an imperative to undertake an analysis from the perspective of Feminist Urbanism concerning Renewal and gentrification processes to advance towards the realization of a Carecentric City.

Environmental Justice, Water and Tourism

Juan Sebastián Hernández Hernández — 2025-01-26

This study examines a problem concerning water use, from an environmental justice perspective, in three municipalities of the Western Region of Antioquia. To achieve this, it identifies and spatializes the environmental benefits of water supply in terms of access and quality, as well as the environmental burdens associated with providing this service. The study contrasts this information with the locations of the population groups in the territory, which were classified into permanent and floating populations; the study also takes into account the population's perception through surveys. Finally, through spatial autocorrelation analysis, it is evident that the environmental benefit is not the same among all inhabitants. Some individuals lack permanent access to the service or face issues with its quality. Moreover, a few individuals and areas bear the identified environmental burdens. Additionally, significant differences exist in the types and levels of environmental benefit consumption.

COOPERATIVE URBANITY

Santiago Benenati Balparda — 2025-01-26

The Uruguayan cooperative housing movement, a pioneering global example, emerged in the late 1960s from grassroots efforts and gained rapid institutionalization through an innovative legal support.This experience has grown over the last fifty years to become the mainstream procedure for social housing provision in the country having a strong impact on the process of building Uruguayan cities. In this sense, it could be understood not only as a prolific architectural experience but also as a social movement involving new understandings of urban governance. However, contemporary challenges persist, particularly in adapting strategies to evolving urban environments. This article examines three key debates: cooperatives' limited autonomy in addressing socio-economic changes, the creation of mono-programmatic and socially homogeneous urban spaces, and the enclosed nature of cooperative developments. In this respect, the establishment of an institutional framework that can articulate different actors in order to include a variety of stakeholders by widening the current operation of existing organizations in the Uruguayan context, as well as finding more flexible legal frameworks for state support that doesn’t compromise the cooperative’s autonomy, are proposed as possible paths for further development of the model. This work grows for a master´s thesis dissertation.

Public block centers as a tool for urban integration

Marilina Romero — 2025-01-26

When studying the socio-spatial configurations of collective housing, their exterior spaces, often underused or of low quality, raise the question of what strategy to implement to make these spaces a link with the rest of the city. How could they connect with public spaces, improve accessibility, rehabilitate landscapes and the environment, leading to true urban integration? Through a comparative analysis, the aim is to understand the patterns of use that enable these central spaces of public access, the social dynamics that allow development, how architectural morphology and territorial management variants affect space use, as well as how they contribute to the configuration of the urban fabric in order to achieve proper integration and result in an improvement in habitat quality.

FROM THE AGRICULTURAL PARK TO THE WETLAND CITY

Graciela Verónica Mantovani — 2025-01-26

The tensions between urban expansion and peri-urban uses destined for the production of local fresh food share the agenda of priority issues in contemporary planning; With this care, the presentation brings to the debate two ideas, with an academic basis, for the northern growth area of Greater Santa Fe: the first deals with a regulatory project for territorial planning at a metropolitan scale, which sees in the figure of the Agrarian Park an option to the conservation of productive areas (indirect action) and the second a project linked to the use of large disused railway routes, framed within a Design Ideas Competition for registered architects, which starts from considering these vacant spaces, as Green Infrastructure integrated into mobility, in dialogue with the environmental identity of the territory (direct action). Both proposals collaborate in the construction of an alternative planning for Santa Fe and its metropolitan area.

Appropriation of public space on urban gastronomic environments in a touristic city, Ensenada, B.C.

Samara L Vilchis Medina — 2025-01-26

The article examines the impact of tourist activity on the appropriation of public space in gastronomic environments in the city of Ensenada, B.C., Mexico. The study focuses on the phenomenon of urban street food, an element rooted in local culture and closely linked to tourism development. Through a qualitative approach it is investigated how the growing tourist demand may affect the use of public space for local inhabitants. The results reveal spatial conflicts derived from the increase in gastronomic tourism, which in the future could compromise the social dynamics of local inhabitants. This study contributes to understanding the challenges associated with the commodification of public space in tourism contexts, offering a relevant perspective for urban planning and tourism management in tourism-oriented cities.

CONSEQUÊNCIAS DA DES-RETERRITORIALIZAÇÃO DAS GALERIAS COMERCIAIS DE PASSAGEM EM SÃO PAULO

Thais Pinto Fonseca — 2025-01-26

The article analyzes the transformation of Galeria Olido, in downtown São Paulo, from an interstitial corridor into a cultural center. This change has redefined its role in the city, connecting different moments and offering an educational-cultural program. The text discusses the processes of des-territorialization proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, highlighting how places can be modified over time. It also explores the differences between reterritorialization promoted by the State through public policies and that initiated by the population or the market. Thus, it investigates whether the remodeled gallery suggests the creation of a new common public space or a renewal of the urban space's collectivization.

Inputs for urban planning decision making using F/OSS.

Juan Carlos Cristaldo Moniz de Aragao — 2025-01-26

One of the fundamental issues in neighborhood improvement processes refers to the tension that exists between consolidating housing generation efforts driven by the communities, and the sometimes imperative need to suggest the relocation in proximity of housing that faces high degrees of precariousness or exposure to environmental risks. This article discusses how methodologies based on the use of free software and collaborative methods make it possible to elaborate base cartographies and highly detailed characterizations of precarious settlements, from which it is feasible to point out which buildings of a community have greater potential for in situ consolidation, versus those that have a profile that indicates the need for relocation. In this way, the article aims to provide a replicable method that contributes to the work of academics, communities and local governments involved in slum upgrading projects.

Public art associated with highways and the metro

cruz armando criollo aliendres — 2025-01-26

The Caracas Road system, especially its large highways, have an important presence in the city landscape. The highways, together with the city's four metro lines, make up the city's mobility system. In the second half of the last century, cultural and urban policies were promoted that formalized the artistic intervention in the areas of influence of the Metro, especially near the station entrances and inside the platforms. Similar actions were also carried out as part of an urban improvement program for transportation infrastructure, especially in areas related to the city's large highways. The urban operations involved the incorporation of large pieces of contemporary art in the residual spaces, so that they were visible from the car's view. Both policies made art part of the everyday urban landscape.

residential and commercial passages

CESAR LENNIN GUZMAN LICAS — 2025-01-26

The present research work addresses the analysis of the spaces used daily and through graphic representation the spontaneous initiative of the population in making the city is valued, relating domestic uses, informal housing and places of supply of daily products, street commerce. . The case study is located in the Constitutional Province of Callao, a city that together with the capital Lima make up a large metropolitan conurbation. And it focuses specifically on the area of the old town of Callao, which is made up of 239 blocks. Where the Central Market of Callao is also located, an area of high commercial concentration where street merchants set up shop daily along the entire length of Avenida Sáenz Peña and Jirón Cochrane. In the same physical space, narrow passages appear within the compact blocks like arteries that open the way to small homes called Vipre: homes of priority and strategic interest.

MARKET AND POWER GAMES IN THE URBANIZATION OF YOPAL

Luis Fernando González Giraldo — 2025-01-26

The urban growth of the city of Yopal, in Casanare (Colombia), is addressed from a quantitative point of view, a model of irregular and excessive territorial occupation for its population of 200,000 inhabitants, since the urban perimeter of 1900 hectares is de facto incorporated (partial plans and legalizations of informal settlements), which, for the most part, without having public services and without being inhabited, They have planning licenses and individual lots, , meanwhile, urbanization pressure on rural and sprawling areas continues. It is proposed that this model, which contradicts the logics of necessity, State and market enunciated by Abramo (2014), can be associated with entrepreneurship, neoliberal urbanism and the speculative secondary market enunciated by Harvey (1998), in a co-opted city that, acting as a growth machine (Logan and Molotch 2015), legally or illegally incorporates land into the speculative market, while the social imaginary validates it in what we call "legitimized illegality".

News aesthetics of urban dwell

María Verónica Blanco Latierro — 2025-01-26

We present results of a research that investigated urban collective forms in consolidated areas of the city of Montevideo. We carry out a series of ethnographic explorations, focusing on social situations that involve various groups. We engaged with neighborhood collectives that intervene creatively in the urban territory. We take three key cases that imply new aesthetics in urban dwell, based on the renewal of historical forms of participation and articulation with local governance. These are groups that are sustained by memory and emotional plots, resolving emerging tensions in daily life. The conclusions and reflections raise the connective power of the aesthetic dimension, especially for the integration of the contradictions inherent to vital processes and the need to continue building a multiple space for the study of urban dwell.

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Ghyslaine Romina Manzaba Carvajal — 2025-01-26

This study examines how urban regeneration on Av. Delta, Guayaquil provides a scientific and technical basis for assessing the impact of regeneration on the environment and user well-being, and for improving the design and management of the avenue. The research uses qualitative-quantitative methodology to study the impact of urban regeneration on local microclimates and heat index in the shade. On-site temperature and humidity measurements are taken, types of floor materials and plant species present are identified, and technical specifications are consulted. The results indicate that urban regeneration has led to changes in local thermal sensation on sidewalks that vary according to the floor materials and shaded areas. This information could be used to optimize the design and management of Av. Delta and replicate good practices in other projects.

MAPS OF ZONES IN INTERMEDIATE CITIES OF URUGUAY

Martin Sorondo Cosio — 2025-01-26

In the Real Estate Portfolio of the Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning of Uruguay, Zone Maps are prepared with the objective of calling for bids in the Project Price and Land modality for the construction of social housing. For this purpose, urban planning criteria were established and sources from both the Departmental Governments and local technicians from the Ministry were consulted. In the present work it is proposed to analyze the procedure used to create the Map of the city of Maldonado. Identify the fundamental requirements regarding urban services and qualities, georeferenced them, establishing buffer areas that will result in the determination of feasible surfaces to be chosen by private companies for the construction of housing by the Ministry. The Zones established on the Maps will be compared with the results generated by cartography carried out in different situations, arriving at conclusions and suggestions.

MEDELLÍN PARA CAMINAR

David Felipe Lopez Grajales — 2025-01-26

Contemporary cities are undergoing a paradigm shift, moving away from the historical focus on fossil fuel vehicles towards the creation of urban spaces focused on active mobility. In this context, it is crucial to address walkability and the factors that influence it with the aim of promoting sustainable and healthy mobility habits. This study seeks to evaluate walkability in Medellín from cartography. The investigation focuses on areas surrounding six stations of the metropolitan transportation system, using a radius of 900 square meters. A methodology is used that combines freely accessible data, such as platforms, urban trees and commercial establishments, where a rating is made derived from the presence and influence of weighted key variables. The results represent walkability on the routes, showing regular and low levels, highlighting the need for interventions in public space to encourage pedestrian routes in Medellín.

O Porto num tempo e num mundo

Patricia Reis M. Braz — 2025-01-26

In 1994, Saskia Sassen released the book "Cities in a World Economy," which addresses the repositioning of cities in the context of globalization. Cities take on specific roles, aligning much more closely with other international market spaces than with other cities in the region or country. The book has been reissued every six years, with the latest version in 2018, with its contents revised and expanded, contextualizing the times and the world based on its initial arguments. At the end of the 20th century, Porto, in Portugal, faced the challenge of debating its internationalization, the results of which are quite visible today. The possibility of comparing readings in sequential editions allows for the confirmation of pointed trends, the observation of new phenomena in global processes, and their effects on the urban condition. Furthermore, they offer concepts and methods serving as a guide for reading a particular case, such as Porto.

The subsurface of the delta

Joan Martí Elias — 2025-01-26

Along the Llobregat River, water management has been the driving force behind urban growth. Its final stretch, the Vall Baixa and the Delta, condense all factors and make it a paradigmatic case study, embodying a territory shaped by water forces. The delicate balance of this environment underscores the fundamental role of understanding ecosystem dynamics in urban planning. The aim is to delve into the relationship between surface and groundwater quality, proposing integrative solutions for sustainable water management in urban contexts. Employing a multidisciplinary approach combining geographic, hydrological, and urban morphology analyses, the research acknowledges the significance of aquifers and their interaction with the built environment. This framework provides a basis for suggesting urban interventions aimed at restoring localized water management solutions.

OCUPAÇÃO EDIFÍCIO PRESTES MAIA

português português — 2025-01-26

The occupation of the Prestes Maia Building, in São Paulo downtown, has a relevance for the city's history, highlighting the complexity of the gentrification processes in this region, land conflicts and the struggle for housing on the part of low-income classes. The issue of (lack of) housing, or even precariousness, especially for the poorest social classes, is fundamental, which needs to be debated, and which is evident in all urban centers of Brazilian cities. This article seeks to revisit the trajectory of the occupation that was considered the largest in Latin America, housing around 2,000 people, linked to the social movement fighting for housing in the central region of São Paulo, and the processes that relate to this trajectory, until has been included in the municipal housing program in 2022, and is currently undergoing renovation to implement social housing, based on public policy.

Living Traditions and Indigenous Resilience:

Anubhav Goyal — 2025-01-26

The research paper examines the pivotal role of living traditions in the adaptation and evolution of indigenous urban spaces, specifically within the coastal urban slum of Dharavi in Mumbai. The study delves into the characteristics of public spaces within these areas, leading to the creation of a comprehensive typology and framework that encapsulate indigenous measures and built elements. By acknowledging and harnessing the wisdom embedded in these traditions, the paper aims to present the intrinsic connection between local practices, cultural heritage, and the physical manifestation of these traditions in the urban landscape, while unveiling how these living traditions serve as a resilient force in the face of urban transformation. Employing direct observations and immersive fieldwork in the neighborhood of fishermen, Koliwada in Dharavi, the research captures the interplay; experiences and perspectives, that presents the cyclical occupation of indigenous urban landscape based on living traditions in the urban slum. The findings underscore the crucial role of community-led vernacular measures in flood adaptation, highlighting how indigenous public spaces serve as innovative tools for addressing challenges, particularly in coastal urban slums prone to flooding. In conclusion, this research emphasizes the significance of understanding, preserving, and integrating living traditions within indigenous urban landscapes.

SETTLEMENT PRINCIPLES BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN

Elena Ogliani — 2025-01-26

The paper focuses on the relationship between urban and rural in architectural transformations, shifting the focus away from the urban perspective. It addresses the challenge of urban and suburban expansion, which often results in inconsistent architectural styles due to the incorporation of rural and semi-rural areas into cities. The research aims to investigate alternative settlement methods in which the sense of living the “non-urban contemporary” could be integrated or not in the urban expansion. Employing analogical and comparative methodologies, the research examines how rural architectural characteristics can be transposed into urban settings, proposing various approaches to the integration of urban and rural elements. Through historical examples and case studies, categories related to "rurality" are defined and analysed compositionally. The study emphasizes the importance of qualitative analysis in the evolving relationship between urban and rural spaces, suggesting potential architectural transformations and experimental approaches for further experimentations to address contemporary challenges.

What Right to the City?

carla alexandra filipe narciso — 2025-01-26

Feminist theory analyzes how the gender perspective has been incorporated, institutionalized and instrumentalized in urban politics and planning in Mexico, placing special emphasis on how women are considered in the field of access to housing, the problem of displacement and public transport, the use of public space, etc. and the implications that this has on their daily practices, based on the assumption that we are still far from integrating the gender perspective as a transformative principle of urban planning and design within the "right to the city", since at the level of political reforms that are linked to the urban and the territorial, Gender has been used more as a descriptive or analytical category than as a political category, continuing to make women invisible as political subjects of knowledge, by not considering their experiences of life in the city.

Urban interventions in Covilhã, Portugal

Hannah Figliolino Mendes — 2025-01-26

The aim of this article is to look at different methodologies for urban interventions in the interior of Portugal, focusing on Bairro das Nogueiras, located in the parish of Teixoso, and the Tortosendo, Covilhã and Teixoso (TCT) road axis. By getting in touch with the territory through the "Bridges" project developed in 2022 under the National Healthy Neighborhoods Program, two approaches were developed. Firstly, on the TCT axis, the aim is to overcome socio-spatial isolation and rethink existing roads. An architectural and urban manifesto is proposed to reflect on and redesign local structures, with an emphasis on creating new public spaces. In a second approach, a laboratory was developed, which served as the basis for a design experiment related to "play" aimed at strengthening ties by connecting children with public space. Social integration, conscious urban design and contact with the community are emphasized to promote more inclusive urban environments.

DIMENSIONES DE LA CICATRIZ URBANA

DORALICE SÁTYRO MAIA — 2025-01-26

This study aims to analyze the spatial and social dimensions of occupation around railway lines in non-metropolitan Brazilian realities from the city of Campina Grande, located in the northeast of Brazil. To this end, the following methodological procedures were used: bibliographic research; documentary research; field research; data systematization with the production of thematic cartograms; analysis of the morphological elements and social data that configure the studied spaces. It was observed that the area presents different morphological configurations and is predominantly occupied by low-income social groups, sometimes informally, configuring itself as a space full of social and infrastructural problems and poorly considered in urban planning.

PLANIFICACIÓN COSTERA

Nicolas Santelices Artaza — 2025-01-26

If there is a global territory that could be defined as paradigmatic in terms of its continuous transformations, it is undoubtedly the coastal zone. In the case of Chile, the coastal zone has undergone profound socio-territorial transformations as a result of anthropisation processes that have accelerated the exposure of human settlements to natural hazards and the degradation of their ecosystems. In this context, the present paper aims to explore, through a literature review, some of the main theoretical approaches currently guiding coastal planning.

At the same time, through a comparative study, it seeks to analyse a coastal planning instrument in Chile with an instrument recognised as international good practice. The results show that the coastal planning instruments in Chile do not integrate some of these main approaches, as their response is ineffective in the face of the current challenges facing the coastal zone.

THE DWELLING PROCESS IN BOGOTÁ

Guillermo Mantilla Ramírez — 2025-01-26

The modern movement contributed in the realization of urban plans for the main cities of Colombia; in Bogotá, the Ciudad Bachué urbanization was one of those projects executed in the 70ˋs. Housing development was in charge of the government during the 20th century, through the Banco Central Hipotecario (BCH) and the Instituto de Crédito Territorial (ICT) for popular strata. Ciudad Bachué was the first and only urban experiment in progressive development multifamily housing carried out by the ICT in its history, the second floors were incomplete duplexes, the third floor, row units with the possibility of expansion to a fourth level, but due to the absence of regulations, the inhabitants continued the self-construction of six or more floors in height, recalling processes of informal progressive development and productive housing, by the need to get rent from it, and that to date have not been academically recorded.

HOW DOES URBAN MORPHOLOGY SHAPES PROFITABLE ACTIVITIES?

Carolina Carrijo Costa — 2025-01-26

The retail and services sectors play a crucial role in urban dynamics and can contribute to urban vitality and community cohesion. Small independent businesses are key elements in the development of a sustainable retail ecosystem and local economy boosting. This study investigates the relationship between plot sizes and the presence of local businesses versus high-capitalized companies in two street sections of Barcelona and São Paulo. It was found that Barcelona’s section has larger plots and a stronger presence of big franchises, suggesting a potential threat to local retailers. On the other hand, São Paulo’s section has smaller plots, with a higher prevalence of local businesses. Findings suggest a correlation between plot size and level of localness in profitable activities. Smaller plots seem to favor local and independent businesses, while bigger plots are related to the dominance of big companies over capital and land.

SPATIAL JUSTICE IN FRAGILE PERIPHERAL AREAS

Rodrigo Vielmo Moura — 2025-01-26

Spatial (in)justice is a multidisciplinary topic commonly associated with environmental and territorial justice. Considering the existence of Italy's territorial inequalities, the advent of the National Strategy for Inner Areas and the chances to reverse existing imbalances due to EU instruments, tools, and funds, this paper aims to verify how spatial justice and territorial inequalities have been addressed into the national framework and check what are the strategies and approaches to overcome the existing fragility and build a more just and equitable environment in Italy. The inner area's inhabitants are deprived of citizenship rights and suffer from the absence and distance of suitable essential services. These factors unquestionably reduce the residents' opportunities and choices and corroborate the existence of spatial injustice and socioeconomic disparities. A content analysis review details innovative strategies and approaches and explains how healthcare, mobility, and education services will overcome complex issues in fragile peripheral areas.

URBAN IMAGINARIES AS A MECHANISM OF DEPOLITICIZATION. THE FRAGMENTED CITY

ÁLvaro Simón de Vega — 2025-01-26

Urban imaginaries qualify the space and produce cognitive maps that allow people to orient themselves in the complex framework of the city and position themselves with respect to the different groups that inhabit it. They also prescribe which spaces belong to the city and which actions can be carried out in them. Urban imaginaries normalize urban practices and spatial production. They work as biopolitical devices of governance, whose purpose is the depoliticization of urban space and the expropriation of spatial commons. Urban imaginaries of fragmentation generate differentiated cognitive maps for each group, disconnecting spatial conceptions and the demands of the global urban structure, preventing the creation of autonomous frameworks for action. Since its origins, the urban planning has fragmented the city, favouring the interests of the dominant classes and producing these imaginaries. This research studies its mechanisms and the history of its construction.

Montevideo Port City

Martin Ferreira — 2025-01-26

This work aims to delve into the urban and territorial relationship of the port with the city of Montevideo. In addition to visualizing the growth and territorial processes of the port, disputed areas are identified where the port wants to advance on the city in its natural growth process and the city intends to maintain or recover for the development of the city and the enjoyment of its citizens. Local plans and detailed projects were investigated as existing tools of territorial planning to achieve these objectives. All this georeferenced regulation is presented accompanied by historical bibliographic research of texts and images, especially historical drawings. Thus, clearly identified sectors Ur emerge so that the city and the port can develop with a more modern look, where the inhabitants of the city connect with their port, so characteristic of it.

MORFOGÉNESIS DE LA CONURBACIÓN:

Eduard Bautista Bulla — 2025-01-26

The present research is a contribution to the analysis of the morphogenesis of the conurbation in the administrative limit of the city of Bogotá and the municipality of Soacha, through an urban reading of the urban footprint from 1930 to the present. The research aims to describe and interpret . the transformations and changes of space from a morphological approach, materializing and classifying the conformation of the conurbation based on a certain temporality. The content is organized into four parts: the first addresses the theoretical scaffolding and the method used; The second shows how worrying the multi-temporal study of the urban footprint and its analysis is; the third to the characterization, sectorization and analysis of the urban fabric on the administrative limit and the fourth part includes the description of the results, closing with some general strategies regarding the research topic.

EVOLUCIÓN DEL CONCEPTO DE FRAGMENTACIÓN URBANA

BIEL ESTARELLAS — 2025-01-26

Urban fragmentation is an emerging concept addressing a prevalent phenomenon in cities worldwide. This study examines the scholarly output on this concept across various cultural contexts, delineating distinctions among french, anglo-saxon, and spanish-speaking schools. Through an exploration of key authors and perspectives, the analysis reveals varied approaches to this polysemic term. The research underscores the potential applications of the concept in spain, emphasizing its relevance in an urban landscape characterized by social, ethnic, and economic disparities. Findings reveal disparate analytical currents, employing different methods, scales, and topics in the study of cities and their fragmentation processes. While french and anglophone literature show robust tradition, the latin american context is characterized by a moderate presence, and spain exhibits a notable gap in both conceptual development and integration of this concept into urban sciences.

ANÁLISIS DE GENTRIFICACIÓN URBANA EN MÉXICO

Jocelyn Elizabeth Lievanos Diaz — 2025-01-26

El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar el proceso de gentrificación en México por medio de aportaciones teóricas, tendencias, tipos y estudios de este fenómeno urbano. En México el proceso de gentrificación se ha estudiado con enfoque en la capital Ciudad de México, pero que ocurre en todo el país. Esta compleja dinámica que experimentan algunas ciudades se potencializó con la llegada de la pandemia coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) y de los nómadas digitales que se asentaron en ciertas zonas del país. La metodología se estructura en una revisión documental y bibliográfica con base en artículos científicos, libros, capítulos de libro y tesis de posgrado. Se concluye que las investigaciones sobre gentrificación en México van en aumento, al tiempo que se expande el uso, aplicación y discusión de este término en las investigaciones científicas.

Urban history in each plot

Eduardo Álvarez Pedrosian — 2025-01-26

The present communication is about an innovated experience of public urban and housing policy: the first cooperative in disperses plots of Montevideo. From the Transdisciplinary Laboratory of Experimental Ethnography (Labtee) an its Program in Urban and Territorial Cultural Studies (PECUT), of the Universidad de la República, we have been carrying out collaborative research in this regard. In this case, we focus on analyzing the morphological and historical characteristics of the plots selected for its construction in the context of Ciudad Vieja (Old City) and its particular conditions, crossing information of the diverse sources from an integral ethnographic approach. Then, we propose the relationships of the members of the collective with these spatialities, based on their life histories around the dwelling, for which we distinguish different types of residence according to precedence and ways of mobility. We conclude with some notes about the ongoing process, its scope, and the importance of continuing to develop collaborative research.

backyard of the city

Gloria Alejandra Donoso Cuevas — 2025-01-26

In Chile, the expression "patio trasero" backyard of a city is a colloquial expression used to refer to an area that is often perceived as less developed, with lower investment, and with unfavorable socio-economic characteristics compared to other areas of the city.There is no precise or standard definition of the "patio trasero of a city," as its usage can vary depending on the context and local perceptions. The central theme of this research is to define the "patio trasero," identify its systemic and repetitive characteristics in the context of the central valley of Chile, and the local features present in the city of San Fernando, the provincial capital of Colchagua. Why is defining the "patio trasero" relevant? Because in these places, social and environmental conflicts arise at first sight, but there is also often untapped potential.

Project on(of) the street

Adriana Sansao Fontes — 2025-01-26

Tactical Urbanism is an approach that uses short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions, allowing the immediate redesign of public spaces with a focus on future transformations. In Rio de Janeiro, the government has been incorporating it to enhance public spaces, often without integration with other stakeholders, while initiatives from civil society face challenges for implementation. This study explores the Street Design, a pedagogical experience from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, grounded in what Schön (2000) defines as "Reflection-in-Action." Two tactical actions - Praia da Bandeira and Baixo Chile - were conducted, revealing methodological, design, and management aspects that either align or differentiate them: the diverse urban fabrics where the actions took place; the involved actors and their interaction with the team; and the funding levels obtained for their realization.

ADECUACIONES EN BORDE HIDRICO PARA LA HABITABILIDAD DEL ESPACIO PUBLICO

María Lorena Sánchez Padilla — 2025-01-26

Public space in the city is the support of its urban structure and spatial component; it is the largest collective construction over time, where bonds of identity, roots, and coexistence are forged. Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the regions with the greatest social inequalities; sometimes the public space of its cities is the scene of crime and insecurity. The natural water edge is analyzed as a territorial divider in a residential context and as a public walkway, abandoned in crisis and decay despite the natural and landscape values it has. The conception of socio-spatial segregation inevitably falls on them, further sharpening its urban problems. Spatial adaptations are proposed that promote habitability, coexistence, and scenic enjoyment of the place to recover the emerging right to public space as a right to the city in places stigmatized by urban violence.

Urban identities and socio-spatial dynamics in waterfronts

Lizeth Guadalupe Félix Lugo — 2025-01-26

The coastal tourist city shows fragmentation, with an impact on public space, cultures, socio-spatial dynamics, and tourism. Ensenada, Mexico has an intercommunication with the United States of America due to its proximity to the northern border and the arrival of cruise ships. The importance of the present study lies in the explanation of how urban identities are constructed in the public spaces of Ensenada's waterfront (malecon), based on the impact of the sociospatial transformations carried out in the period from 2013-2025, and tourism, from the perspective of local users. A mixed approach was chosen, through a) perception questionnaire and b) focus groups. The expected results show that urban identities are contrasted, adopting and mimicking socio-spatial characteristics external to the city, which impacts the components of recognition, belonging, permanence, and linkage by local users.

Public-Private Partnerships in Waterfront Regeneration Processes:

Paula Vale de Paula — 2025-01-26

The public contracting models based on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) arrangements, initially used in other sectors, have also become part of urban planning, including urban regeneration projects. Despite this, PPP arrangements in urban regeneration projects face many obstacles, reflecting the essence of this contracting instrument and the particularities of the sector itself. In this sense, it is important to study best practices and the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that can contribute to these practices. Based on this, this study analyzes a concrete case of urban regeneration through a PPP: the waterfront and Port of Livorno developed through the STU Porta a Mare. The analysis refers to different aspects, considering the urban features of the project itself and issues relating to the partnership. Through the analysis, the study aims to identify best practices and success factors specific to this case, which could influence other partnerships in the same scope.

SANEAMIENTO, SALUBRIDAD E HIGIENE PÚBLICA

Sergio Adrián Garcés Corzo — 2025-01-26

This study carried out within the Doctorate of art and architecture, in the line of theory and history of architecture and the city in Colombia and Latin America of the National University of Colombia, addresses the influence that the hygienist movement in Latin America and Colombia had on the interpretation of concepts such as sanitation, health and public hygiene in the urban habitat, where cartography and geospatial literature do not reflect settlement processes and the appropriation of urban space and habitat. Relationships of causes that occur around diseases and contextual thoughts are developed and established at a social, cultural, political, economic, scientific and urban architectural level, with ways of organizing the territory and the city, from an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of this phenomenon, developing from the local administration an approach to progress and development in the city of Bogotá at the beginning of the 20th century.

Keywords: Sanitation, health, public hygiene, periphery
Topic: theory and history of the city

Public space and social encounter

Andres Señoret Swinburn — 2025-01-26

Although in recent years the concept of urban vitality has experienced an important revival, many works do not address a central theme of Jane Jacob's work: a greater daily use of public space, related to certain attributes of the built environment, implies an increase in social interactions at street level, enhancing the sense of community and belonging of the inhabitant with his neighborhood. Idea that has been adopted by studies on urban sociability based on the concept of public familiarity. The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework based on the above concepts to investigate the impacts of the densification of the central area of Santiago de Chile on the patterns of neighborhood sociability of its inhabitants, in order to understand how a mode of urban development that prioritizes the profit maximization of private developers ends up impacting the public social life of the inhabitants.

SERVICIOS ECOSISTÉMICOS DEL ARBOLADO URBANO

Alejandra Calle Cárdenas — 2025-01-26

Urban trees offer, in addition to their aesthetic and ornamental function, a variety of fundamental ecosystem services. This study focused on evaluating these services in public spaces in Medellín, Colombia. Using i-Tree eco, ArcGis and the "4 in 1" environmental meter, services such as thermal regulation, regulation of runoff and evapotranspiration, retention and reduction of atmospheric pollutants and noise were quantified. The results highlight the significant contribution of urban trees in reducing temperature and improving climatic comfort in public spaces. Although the findings on the function as a noise barrier were inconclusive, the importance of trees in the capture of pollutants, oxygen production and regulation of runoff is highlighted. These results reinforce the idea that trees in urban ecosystems are essential for sustainable land management and optimizing the quality of life in urban environments.

MONTEVIDEO FROM NODAL METROPOLIS TO RETICULAR CITY?

Salvador Schelotto — 2025-01-26

Since its Spanish colonial genesis as a city-territory, Montevideo is more than a city. Since the middle of the 20th century, this territorial vocation has been confirmed, first establishing a complex metropolitan structure, progressively evolving from a nodal metropolis to an incipient reticular city.

At the beginning of the 21st century, a “cycle change” occurred in the metropolization process, accentuating transversal territorial dynamics and incipient polycentrism, present in a certain way in the preceding model, became more intense.

The presentation develops some of these dynamics, which explain the change in the territorial model and its intensification in recent years.

The recognition of recent territorial transformations such as logistics enclaves, private urbanizations and new housing supply outside the metropolitan center, the growth of housing precariousness and infrastructural development is accompanied by an analysis of academic and institutional production on the subject and the proposals for new metropolitan governance.

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN METRO AND THE CITY

ROCIO HIDALGO CEPEDA — 2025-01-26

The metro, the city's preferred public transportation system, represents at the same time a work of the first magnitude, capable of inducing the sustainable urban development that the planet today demands. This depends, however, on the adequate articulation of two factors, the architecture of its stations and the morphology of its environment.

This article analyzes the Santiago Metro network from these two aspects. The set of typologies that define the architecture of its 136 stations is identified and this is related to the observation of the transformation of public space and the built fabric of the surroundings of each of them, before and after the construction of the metro. This, with the aim of highlighting the conjunction of typological and morphological patterns that best contributes to the construction of more sustainable, equitable and healthy urban environments and, in this way, guide their future interventions.

CIDADES EMPRESA COMO EXEMPLO DE PLANEJAMENTO INTEGRADO

Gustavo Bruski de Vasconcelos — 2025-01-26

The text explores the concept of company towns, exemplified by Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil, established by the São Francisco Hydroelectric Company (CHESF). The objective is to analyze this city as an example of integrated planning, highlighting its correlation with public policies, urban development, and hydroelectric ventures. The analysis is based on the ongoing doctoral research, "Developmental infrastructure public policies and company towns: The case of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric complex, Bahia - Brazil," at the Urbanism Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Concepts of urban planning, public policies, management, and sustainability are employed with a technical and cultural approach. The results highlight Paulo Afonso as an example of a company town, integrating urban development with the relevant business and urban structure in its territorial context. The study emphasizes the importance of leadership and planning for the effective execution of integrated urban projects, suggesting that their virtues can guide new proposals for spatial intervention.

Urban Invisibility: The Right to the City from a Feminine Perspective

Ana Aparecida Guimarães — 2025-01-26

The urban experience of women in São Paulo reflects the complexities of urban space and gender dynamics in Brazil's largest city. Women face significant challenges, from precarious mobility to unequal access to public services and unsafe urban spaces. Socioeconomic disparities exacerbate these difficulties, highlighting the intersectionality of their identities. Fully understanding these experiences is essential for developing more inclusive and equitable public policies. This article emphasizes the need for comprehensive analysis that recognizes the diverse realities of women in the City of São Paulo and promotes a safer, fairer, and more equal urban environment for all.

Keywords: Feminist urbanism, right to the city, feminine right to the city, urban inequality.

Topic: Public space and urban design in the contemporary metropolis.

VILA FRANCA DE XIRA

michelle souza benedet — 2025-01-26

This research deals with urbanity on waterfronts and how to create favorable conditions for its occurrence, through the case study of the Vila Franca de Xira Riverfront, in Portugal. The objective is to understand the favorable conditions for the occurrence of urbanity on waterfronts, seeking to demonstrate that places with urbanity have more positive effects on the quality of space and allow different forms of coexistence to emerge. The record of urbanity sought to capture urbanity and the groups that develop sociability, build identities and give meaning to places on the waterfront. As a result, the elements that induce urbanity are presented and discussed: urban insertion and river-city relationship; diversity of open spaces, equipment and furniture; accessibility and mobility; respect for pre-existing uses; balance between artificiality and naturalness; stimulation of the five senses; adequacy of landscaping projects; and the intelligibility of the concept.

El minifundio y la huerta

Antonio José Salvador — 2025-01-26

Twenty-five years after its creation, the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park remains a relevant case in planning and managing peri-urban agricultural land. Besides being a land-use protection mechanism, the ‘agricultural park’ as a planning figure aims to dynamize its productive, morphological, and natural assets. Within the current debate on the agroecological transition, climate change, and local agri-food systems, this case becomes more relevant given that various scales of horticultural and fruit production play a role in the local agri-food system. This analysis constructs socio-spatial relationships inside and outside the park. It demonstrates that through the relationship between land tenure, land management, and production systems, issues and challenges emerge that can feed the debate on planning peri-urban agrarian spaces and the challenges faced by local production systems.

PANJ TIRATH

Nikhil Sanjay Shah — 2025-01-26

Architecture is an amalgamation of the built environment, traditions, ecology, and sociocultural practices of human habitation. It has an innate power to raise aspirations, instill a sense of pride and belonging, and nurture social behavior. Post Independence of India in 1947 AD, there was a need to define the language of new habitat that would characterize the future of the nation. This research is based on five settlements in the proximity of Surat city which we would propose to be identified as ' Panj Tirath' which is the Gandhian cultural landscape of South Gujarat. These places are deeply influenced by the Gandhian philosophy and have been sustained, re-interpreted, and reinforced over time. These settlements include Dandi, Haripura, Vedchi, Bardoli, and Dharasana and have been pivotal to India's freedom struggle. The result of the research is documented narratives of mulit-disciplinary perceptions of urbanity and the transformations these five places have observed post-independence.