Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This paper examines seven tourist places in the Spanish province of Alicante, where it is possible to identify a greater presence or agency of LGBTQ+ communities. They are also coastal enclaves highly appreciated by heteronormative society and thus crossed by spatial conflicts and exclusion policies that allow their reality to be approached from an intersectional perspective. Our study reveals that, in addition to the gradients of dispossession and discrimination that non-normative inhabitants suffer transversally in society, the queer condition, upon intersecting with the class factor, causes differentiated experiences in terms of segregation, harassment and homophobic violence. In each location, the idiosyncrasy of the physical and cultural geography suggests specific analytical methodologies, mostly qualitative, which, together with an effort of queer pedagogy, invite us to reflect on other ways of producing and sharing knowledge.

Our main objective is to study, within the context of neoliberal reforms, the transition of a regulating State to an entrepreneurial State concerning urban management in Lima, Peru since 1990. For this, we have carried out retro-progressive research. Firstly, we analyzed the regulatory framework that established real estate operations in the city. Secondly, we have come to understand the current situation, analyzing the case of Lince district to corroborate and diagnose an entrepreneurial urban development. The methodology applied was  to analyze its urban management tools and interviews with neighborhood delegates in order to understand how the city changed not only in its surface, behind and beneath it, , but also in its sociability. The results show that Lima, and Peru in general, assimilates the model of free market as the only way of creating a city and, consequently, with the endorsement of local authorities and real estate agencies, fragmenting and privatizing districts. This paper´s contribution lies in pointing out how Lima, unlike its Latin American peers, has a laissez-faire approach that, far from regressing regulations both on a metropolitan and a local scale, has expanded them in the name of efficiency and the rationality of market logics, creating thus the paradox of a deregulated city.

In the second half of the 20th century, multiple criticisms were articulated about the Cartesian urbanism of the Modern Movement. The Situationist avant-garde developed its Unitary Urbanism inspired by the territorial expressions of the itinerant European Rroma groups. However, they could not abandon an ethnocentered and primitivist gaze towards the Rroma People, whose pluriverse is still persecuted. The article is based on an existing discussion about this connection and poses an epistemological debt between the situationist utopias and the Rroma People. Through the contrasted reading of various situationist sources and other related authors, it has been possible to identify the meeting points and divergences between the urban proposals of the Situationist International and Rroma territoriality, analyzing them from notions of epistemic extractivism and decolonial criticism. The investigation is completed with the author's own experience in the struggles of the Rroma population residing in informal settlements in Galicia. Situationist critical urbanism continued to be ethnocentric, patriarchal, and anti-Rroma due, in part, to the historic explanation of urban inequalities along the class-poverty axis. This denial contributed to the extractivist dehumanization of the Rroma, which even today prevents us from building emancipatory urban models that incorporate inferiorized knowledge.

This paper seeks to identify the trends and main currents related to the production of public space and its impact on social inclusion or exclusion, especially of people with disabilities. The issue is addressed by contemporary debates raised by different authors about the construction and social production of space and their influence on the physical-spatial reality of cities. The studies and theorizations of these authors are critically approached in order to build a reflection on the right to the city, the spatial inclusion/exclusion, and disability in public space. For this purpose, a systematized literature review was carried out based on the SALSA methodology (Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis, and Analysis). As a result of this review, it became evident that there is a systematic separation between the production of physical space and social space derived from the acts of dominant power mediated by expert technocrats who conceive, project, and materialize physical space and its difference from the practices, perceptions, and experiences of those who use it.

Through the understanding of cartography as an alternative representation tool, this paper researches the existing and usually invisible relationships between informal micro-activities and formal public spaces. For this purpose, Carapungo Entry Park located in the north of Quito (Ecuador), is taken as a case study, being a paradigmatic case of the complexity and multiplicity that constitutes informality in Latin American cities. After a first analysis based on the formal planning of this park, we will focus on dissident spatial practices carried out by inhabitants who occupy and appropriate a formal space. These situations of conflict originate spatial constructions based on spontaneity, fluidity, adaptability, movement, and temporality, which include local culture, economy, and social interaction. With the production of cartographies, the processes and activities generated by formal and informal vendors, passers-by, and public transport passengers, are made visible and analyzed. The expected results based on cartography as an alternative representation, are the presentation of relations of tensions, forces, conflicts, and negotiations that allow us to identify patterns, trends and behaviors that have no place in the supposed precision and rigor of the regulations in the formal planning of public space.

Chilean housing policy has suffered a profound transformation during the last decades. In the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, a model emerged based on community attributes, promoting community organization and the construction of well-provided neighborhoods that, in addition, had abundant public space. In 1973, the focus shifted with the implementation of a subsidiary model that promoted single-family and individual solutions and payed far less attention to the collective development of the residential habitat. Although the continuation of this model until today has significantly reduced the housing shortage, it has been unable to reproduce a residential space of community ties. This article aims to investigate the impacts of both models on the configuration, use and appropriation of the public space and the neighborhood sociability of the residents through a multi-methods analysis of two social housing projects located in Santiago de Chile. The findings reaffirm the relevance of the history and the organization of the neighborhoods, but also confirm the significance of planned public spaces and the arrangement of the built environment as dimensions that can promote or suppress social practices.

Public space is commonly concerned from its social and political dimension, without clear distinctions between space and the public sphere. In addition, debates about the public came from ideas that emerged in the global north. The present document argue that it is necessary to restore the spatial condition of the public as well as its formal dimension to discuss why and whom the public is built in the south. An analysis of the elements of the typological urban form of emblematic towns in Santiago de Chile as a represented space, also known as 9x18 neighborhoods, is proposed. Four design hypotheses about neighborhoods are discussed, based on their land distribution, the hierarchies of their space, the bonds between neighbors and their relations with government services. It is concluded that the public space of the Chilean “poblaciones” built in the 1960s was intended by urban policy as a space that related the inhabitants with the State services.

The public space of Latin American popular settlements is fundamentally the result of the social production of the habitat and, in some cases, of the intervention of public policies. In these contexts, the spaces of articulation between housing and the city are of special interest due to the variety of uses and functions that they are capable of harbor. Frequently, they are conceived as an extension of the home, blurring the boundaries between the public and private spheres of habitat. The article seeks to characterize, in an exploratory manner, the spaces of articulation between housing and the city in popular settlements, taking Villa 20 in Buenos Aires as a case study. This neighborhood has been going through, since 2016, a Comprehensive Re-urbanization Process (PIRU) carried out by the local State. Through a qualitative approach, based on documentary analysis and field observation, functions, uses and meanings of the spaces of articulation between housing and city are pointed out. Among the findings, it is corroborated that its organization has different characteristics from other urban spaces in the city, some elements to consider when intervening them from public policy are pointed out. 

The paper examines the relation between the footbridges in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, and the number of pedestrians involved in collisions in their proximity. The analysis began with an assessment of the walkability in the proximity of the places where the footbridges are located, then geographic data systems were used for the geolocation of car-pedestrian collisions in the 2015-2020 period, and a multivariant analysis was carried out using genetic algorithms and a multivariate analysis was carried out using genetic algorithms. Results obtained showed that 34.7% of the collisions in Chihuahua occur within 300 meters of a pedestrian bridge and that vehicle speed, crossing distance when using pedestrian bridges, and barriers at street level are descriptors that contribute significantly to the road traffic risks faced by pedestrians. In general, it is concluded that footbridges in the city of Chihuahua do not contribute to the improvement of pedestrian road safety conditions.

Los trabajos reunidos en esta colección tienen en común la aplicación de perspectivas interseccionales para entender la vida urbana desde los bordes, a través de situaciones observadas en diversos contextos nacionales y regionales, en el espacio público, el acceso a la vivienda, experiencias y estrategias de resistencia espacial, entre otros tópicos relevantes.