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This article discusses the less commented book Croisade or le Crépuscule des Académies, written by Le Corbusier and published in 1933, as a response to a speech made, in 1932, by Gustave Umbdenstock, a renowned professor of the École Polytechnique. The purpose of the book was to defend modern architecture before the attacks which identified it as a reductionist attitude of the rationalist thought and industrialization. As a result, this would lead to unemployment of workers, craftsman and French architects, who were linked to time-honored traditions. The struggle pictured in the book takes place within one of the biggest crisis in Europe from the late 19th century until the beginning of World War II. It was a period of patriotism, national pride and protectionism, and obviously expansion and protection of these values. This work sets out to clear the dimension of the debate between those brilliant men, placed in such opposite positions. In addition, the article includes a translation of an excerpt from the conclusion of the book,

The preservation of landscapes and historic gardens is a recent fact. If the nineteenth century registered some of the earliest attempts of recovery of degraded areas and reforestation, it was in the twentieth century that society became aware of the true aesthetic, environmental and cultural value of certain landscapes and gardens – which is evident in those several cultural heritage charters produced throughout this century, as well as in some laws and decrees that arose in defense of this (natural and built) heritage. To put into discussion the presence of the garden and the landscape in heritage charters is to think about preservation of garden areas – or garden open spaces created by man – as well as of humanized landscapes, cultural landscapes, urban and natural landscapes; is to promote aesthetic and cultural considerations regarding some areas and spaces which are in continuous transformation and which are intended to be preserved notwithstanding such transformation. We aim here to emphasize and analyze critically those references to the garden and landscape comprised in heritage charters, and in the Brazilian law which aim their preservation, bringing about such discussion and considerations.

This statement is part of a research under development about the architect Sylvio Barros Sawaya. Here, the architect comments some of his works and through them, we shall realize his way of understanding architecture, his designing and building procedures, influence he had of great masters of Paulista Architecture, his research on alternative materials applied to the building and its discovery of an architecture made with popular elements and forms, which transformed his vision and projects. It is understood that the architect can be seen as countercultural, producing sometimes an alternative architecture concerning prevailing building systems and even in relation to the understanding of what the project is.

A memory vector, the cultural heritage, after the Second World War, mainly since the 1980s, has been a field in continuous and rapid transformationdue to changes, especially in the way memory – together with history - have been understood and faced.

¿Qué escenas en torno a los usos del espacio se despliegan actualmente en Buenos Aires? La pregunta por los modos de habitar la ciudad hoy, se dirige a pensar la relación entre la forma urbana material y la política, asumiendo con Rancière que la política es “la actividad que reconfigura los marcos sensibles en el seno de los cuales se definen objetos comunes”. De modo que la forma urbana es política en tanto habla de una distribución sensible entre el todo y aquello que excluye.Desde estas coordenadas teórico-conceptuales, se reflexiona acerca de las (re)configuraciones del tejido sensible que durante las últimas décadas, se vienen produciendo a partir del arribo del neoliberalismo a la ciudad. Reconfiguraciones que, como la lógica de la gentrificación, involucran procesos de exclusión pero que también manifiestan, como en las experiencias ligadas al derecho a la ciudad, formas subjetivas que pujan por una distribución más igualitaria del espacio.SUMMARYWhat scenes concerning around the uses of the space actually deployed in Buenos Aires? The question for the manners of inhabiting the city today, leads to examining the relation between among the urban material form and the politics, assuming with Rancière that the politics is “the activity that re-forms the sensitive frames in the bosom of which common objects are defined “. So that the urban form is political, while it speaks about a sensitive distribution between everything and that one that it excludes. From these theoretical-conceptual coordinates, it is thought over brings over of the (re) configurations of the sensitive fabric that during the last decades, they come producing from the arrival of neoliberalism to the city. Reconfigurations that, as the logic of the gentrification, involve processes of exclusion but that also they demonstrate, since in the experiences tied to the right to the city, subjective forms that bid for a more egalitarian distribution of the space.

Este artículo se propone indagar sobre el vínculo entre necesidades básicas y política social, así como recuperar el debate acerca de las necesidades a partir de los siguientes cuestionamientos: ¿qué significa realmente necesidades humanas básicas? ¿Cómo identificarlas entre tantas nociones imprecisas, emotivas, subjetivas, relativas, puntuales, e inclusive malintencionadas, a su respecto? ¿Cómo recuperar el concepto de necesidades humanas, trabajado por pensadores clásicos como Rousseau, en el siglo XVIII, y Hegel y Marx, en el siglo XIX, los cuales hasta hoy sirven de referencia a autores contemporáneos, como Agnes Heller, Plant, Doyal & Gough, Taylor-Gooby, Habermas, para citar a los más conocidos?.

Entrevista al sociólogo y urbanista peruano, diplomado en Planificación para el género; asesor de la Comisión de vivienda del Congreso del Perú; ex integrante del Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo, DESCO. Gustavo Riofrío, durante su trayectoria profesional se ha desempeñado en diversos proyectos vinculados al hábitat popular, las barriadas populares y la planificación.

Reseña del libro Participación, políticas públicas y territorio. Aportes para una perspectiva integral compilado por Adriana Rofman y publicado por la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento en el año 2016.

Reseña del libro Ciudades exitosas DE Ábrego Ayala, J. O. Editado por el Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública de México en el año 2016.

La problemática juvenil junto con la precariedad laboral ocupa el centro de gravedad de la cuestión social. La temática de la vulnerabilidad, precariedad y desafiliación de los jóvenes interroga a la sociedad, desde el punto de vista sociológico, acerca de las formas de garantizar su cohesión y desde el punto de vista económico, a propósito de su capacidad de reproducción de la fuerza de trabajo. La publicación, basada en investigaciones cualitativas y cuantitativas, intenta realizar una descripción de la problemática juvenil desde sus variables “duras”: abandono escolar, trabajo precario, desocupación, inactividad absoluta, etc. Se presenta una propuesta de una agenda a futuro donde se resalta que la política pública, con respecto a los jóvenes, debe de ser integral, a través de la creación de una Red Joven, finalmente se propone la creación de una serie de dispositivos que realicen acciones de prevención, reafiliación y reinserción de los mismos. SUMMARYThe youth problem together with the precariousness of work occupies the centre of gravity of the social question. The subject of vulnerability, precariousness and disaffiliation of young people interrogates society, from the sociological viewpoint, about ways to guarantee their cohesion and from an economic point of view, regarding their ability to reproduce force of work. A proposal for a future agenda is presented in this article that highlights that public policy, with respect to young people, must be comprehensive through the creation of a Young Network; finally, it is proposed to create a series of mechanisms to carry out prevention, re-affiliation and reintegration actions.