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The process of housing losing that is shaking part of the population as a consequence of foreclosures it is seen as part of a strategy of home dispossession that literature called new urban enclosures. To analyze the process the example of Menorca is presented. It is shown trough varying degrees of geographical resolution of the foreclosures, reaching the level of street. The analysis is linked to the credit policy that fueled the bubble and to the geography of different social status of the island.The results show how the cities, and the areas of lower social status, is where the process of home dispossession by foreclosures was bigger, while in rural areas where most heterogeneous population lives, the impact of social status the crisis has been less.

Bajo distintas concepciones y categorías, las originarias trazas y arquitectura de las ciudades empiezan a ser preocupación principalmente después de la segunda guerra mundial. Desde entonces, y ante una creciente industria de turismo global, la ciudad se ha convertido en un objeto de consumo de masas y de inversión inmobiliaria a la que se le ha exigido, para ser digerible, una definición y una caracterización. Aunque en México desde la década del treinta del siglo pasado ya hay breves intentos, la instauración de políticas e instrumentos para su conservación inicia cuatro décadas después. En esta búsqueda se desplegaron diversos posicionamientos. El máscontradictorio, sin embargo, se resumiría en aquel en donde las instituciones encargadas adoptaron un papel más allá de lo protagónico que, en algunos casos, desembocó en la sustitución de los saberes y voluntades de la sociedad. Tomando como objeto a la histórica ciudad virreinal de Tepic Nayarit, desde un enfoque historicista hermenéutico, en el presente trabajose describe y se reflexiona en las consecuencias de su sujeción a un modelo ingenuo de provincia mexicana, así como las posibles implicaciones que esta imposición genera en el natural desenvolvimiento de la imagen urbano-arquitectónica de esta ciudad media del occidente mexicano.

The environmental justice perspective is contributing to unravel the interaction among environmental threats, health conditions and vulnerable groups. The spatial patterns in Madrid City of some vulnerable socio-demographic groups, particulate air pollution and cardiovascular mortality are studied in an integrated manner in this paper. With this aim, an ex novo methodology of spatial analysis has been designed, involving statistical techniques and a geographic information system, to identify possible socio-spatial inequalities.

From the structural changes in the Mexican economy implemented during 1980-1990, Mexico became the preferential target for Spanish investment in Latin America; however, its behavior revealed marked differences during 1993-2013. This investigation conducts an in-depth review, firstly, of the evolution of Spain’s direct investment in Mexico, segregated by economic target sector in three stages which mark key moments in the recent evolution of the Spanish economy, and associates them with the structural reforms in the Mexican economy. Secondly, the investigation analyzes the geographic distribution of such investments in Mexico’s States, identifying spatial concentration processes and differentiating the intensity of investment and its economic sectors according to the geographical targets. The leading role of Spanish capital and businesses in Mexico in specific sectors is highlighted, as well as the trend towards a future expansion.

The bursting of the real estate bubble and the onset of global financial crisis have allowed to unmask the consequences of the Spanish real estate model, which has been based on the conception of housing as an instrument for the creation and appropriation of urban rents, supported by a progressive financiarization of the built environment. Thus, the proliferation of vacant or unfinished housing together with a fast growth in evictions rates represents the main manifestation of a paradoxical situation. This paper develops a territorial analysis of the real estate crisis in Catalonia. For this purpose, one of the key variables is the study of evictions due to foreclosures. Given the lack of official data regarding the volume and distribution of this phenomenon on a scale lower than the provincial or the judicial party, this study proposes the use of second-hand dwellings owned by banks as an alternative secondary source. This allows for an approximation to this phenomenon at an infra-municipal level, through three case studies (Tarragona, Terrassa and Salt). Beyond confirming the usefulness of this source, results allow to demonstrate empirically how evictions due to foreclosures have tended to concentrate in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, thus contributing to the deepening of inequality in cities.

The librarian Theodora Kimball (1887-1935) was one of the key figures in the institutionalization of urban planning in the United States. She contributed to the advancement of professionalism of planning by establishing criteria to rationalize the amalgam of knowledge and experiences that were taking place, favouring the formation of a specific literature that would allow a greater presence in the academic and professional fields. Her work in the library of the Landscape School of Harvard University was one of the leading American node in the international network of knowledge through which flowed the key issues of urban debate period as technician training, dissemination of knowledge and citizen participation, the emergence of zoning as a tool for control of urban development versus positive nature of city planning and landscape architecture step from regional planning.

Este texto explora las posibilidades que ofrece hoy el discurso situacionista sobre lo urbano en el campo de la educación y pretende discernir si éste nos sirve, a principios del siglo XXI, como caja de herramientas en nuestro devenir como educadores y formadores de futuros maestros en el siglo XXI. En este sentido, los proyectos que desarrollamos con nuestros estudiantes nos servirán, a lo largo del texto, de eje vertebrador de nuestro discurso. Se trata de proyectos que sitúan la mirada en el entorno próximo, en los lugares vividos, en la ciudad…, que necesariamente se implican en la comunidad, y que harán de puente entre dos marcos conceptuales aparentemente desvinculados, el del discurso urbano situacionista y el de la educación.

In recent years, investigations of territorial history have introduced a new methodological approach articulated classics historical aspects with a critical use of graphic documental sources for the study of the territory in Buenos Aires province. Thereby, territorial organization -its populating, the physical conformation of villages, settlements or colonies, subdivision or cartographic representations- can be examined through the analysis of the plan or the map. This paper deals with the processes of territorial construction in the Buenos Aires pampas during the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly around the modes of land occupation and recognition -by state- to the indigenous tribes who inhabited in the frontier.

Tras dos décadas de expansión neoliberal, la crisis iniciada en 2007 parece haber puesto en entredicho la forma de producir la ciudad y los niveles de competencia espacial que estaban dándose, en especial entre el centro y la periferia urbanas. La atención puesta en las consecuencias que sobre el soporte físico y morfológico se producía en las periferias, relegó el estudio de los centros urbanos, de su desarrollo y de su papel en la producción neoliberal de espacio. Por ello, parece pertinente preguntarse qué estaba ocurriendo en ellos, en concreto en la Almendra Central de Madrid, mientras se daba la expansión de la periferia. El análisis morfológico de las geografías de acumulación de capital, económico, simbólico y social, nos aventura una intensificación de los valores de elitización y competencia durante los años previos a la crisis, aparentemente consolidados en el discurso urbano actual

This paper seeks to test the gentrification hypothesis pertaining to the historical centre of Porto in the context of the changes observed in the economic, social, and housing structures of the city in recent decades. The hypothesis of replacement of low-income families by an upper middle class is tested using a methodology combining techniques of qualitative analysis (semi-structured in-depth interviews with residents and former residents and officials involved in the transformation of the area), and quantitative analysis (statistical data on population and housing). The empirical results indicate that the displacement of low-income families was due more to processes of housing degradation than to housing rehabilitation. It also indicates that in the current phase of neoliberal policy, there are commercial gentrification processes that increase the threat of residential flight from the historic centre.