Urbanismo y desigualdad social

Urbanismo y desigualdad social
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Siglo XXI de España Editores
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1977-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788432302527

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

Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems

Critical Praxis and the Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems
Author: Max Stephenson
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2024-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 2832554806

Scholarship and high-level diplomatic reports alike, including that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021, have highlighted the negative material and bodily inequities of our globalized industrial food system, one that is fuelled by a hegemonic politics of food access and availability. The effects of industrialized food systems on public health, human rights, food sovereignty, ecological sustainability for land and water, as well as for climate change are increasingly obvious. These ongoing challenges, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have exacerbated existing social, economic, and political inequalities and vulnerabilities and placed them in the spotlight. The crisis in the Ukraine has also underscored how connected global industrialized food systems are to nation state geopolitical interests, international alliances, trade relations, and conflicts. The current industrialized resource-intensive food system has persisted because of a complex set of power relations, despite its continuing and deepening social, ecological, and cultural costs.

Teoría de las condiciones y los servicios generales de la producción

Teoría de las condiciones y los servicios generales de la producción
Author: Gustavo Garza
Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico AC
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 6074625891

La economía política de la urbanización asume que las condiciones generales de la producción constituyen el determinante histórico fundamental de la concentración espacial del capital. En este libro, primero de una trilogía sobre el tema, se extiende esa categoría proponiendo la existencia del binomio condiciones y servicios generales de la producción, como un concepto más adecuado para comprender las aglomeraciones metropolitanas contemporáneas. En la primera parte de la obra se analiza la evolución de dicha categoría dentro de la teoría del capital, su desarrollo histórico mundial como andamiaje infraestructural, así como su definición, tipología y características. En la segunda parte se inicia un estudio empírico sobre el vínculo de la infraestructura con la competitividad urbana y, principalmente, la cuestión de su financiamiento en el caso de la Ciudad de México.

Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability

Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability
Author: Javier Martinez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030505405

This handbook provides the latest research related to quality of life and sustainability, taking into account social, economic, environmental, and political/governance aspects as well as specific socio-spatial contexts. The volume includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars from various disciplines and geographical contexts (Global South and North). The varying cultural and socio-spatial contexts of the authors in the selected cases contribute to first-hand knowledge on the realities of sustainability issues affecting the quality of life. The authors apply a wide diversity of methods and tools, which facilitates a unique understanding of the interlinkages between quality of life and sustainability. The chapters are grouped in three main sections: concepts and foundations; tools, techniques, and applications; and innovations. The authors provide their own view and theoretical approximation of the dimensions of sustainability, in particular on how these dimensions play out in relation to quality of life. The combination of sustainability and quality of life concepts and perspectives is particularly important in unravelling the multi-faceted nature of human, urban, rural/spatial development.

Housing and Belonging in Latin America

Housing and Belonging in Latin America
Author: Christien Klaufus
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782387412

The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Lima, residents built their own homes and formed community organizations, while in Rio de Janeiro inhabitants of the favelas needed to be “pacified” in anticipation of international sporting events. Aspirations to “get ahead in life” abound in the region, but so do multiple limitations to realizing the dream of upward mobility. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.

The Urban Crisis

The Urban Crisis
Author: Francisco Sabatini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1986
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America

Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America
Author: Graciela Tonon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-03-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319288423

This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the book presents the methodology for the construction of new indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical perspective, and examines quality of life of different populations. The book focuses on the social, economic, political, geographical and demographic dimensions. It covers a wide range of topics, including the ways to measure social, political and spatial inequalities, the changes in urban quality of life, the construction of a synthetic indicator for the assessment of habitability, the measuring of spatial segregation in midsize and smaller cities by using thematic cartography and synthesis maps, and the concept of habitability. It includes research conducted on the quality of life of different population groups: working boys and girls, high-school students, and older people.

Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services

Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services
Author: Nedelea, Alexandru-Mircea
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466697628

Tourism marketing is a vital tool in promoting the overall health of the global economy by not only bringing necessary revenue to a particular region, but also providing an opportunity for tourists to explore another culture, building tolerance and overall exposure to different ways of life. Strategic Tools and Methods for Promoting Hospitality and Tourism Services provides interdisciplinary perspectives in the areas of global tourism and hospitality. Highlighting cultural boundaries of strategic knowledge management through the use of case studies and theoretical research, as well as the opportunities and challenges of tourism marketing, this publication is an essential reference source for academicians, research scholars, marketing professionals, graduate-level students, and industry professionals interested in international travel and the vacation industry.

Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories

Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories
Author: Alessia Allegri
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-09-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 100046413X

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

From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity

From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinarity
Author: Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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