scholarly journals RE-ENVISIONING INFRASTRUCTURES, RE-ARMING SUSTAINABLE (UNCONVENTIONAL) PUBLIC SPACES: FREE DESIGN EXERCISES FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THE URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT FOR THE FERROCARRIL DE CUERNAVACA DISTRICT OF MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIUSEPPE CALDAROLA
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Public Spaces

scholarly journals Compositional situation: analysis of the location of two sculptures in Mexico City

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Leszek Maluga
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
The Subject

The study consists of two parts. In the first one, the author outlines a methodological concept of researching the quality of compositional and artistic spatial systems that are created, for example, in the urban environment with the participation of, inter alia, architectural objects and works of art. The subject of this type of research was called a ‘compositional situation’. In the second part, the author uses the proposed research method to analyze specific cases. These are two situations existing in the public spaces of Mexico City, in which sculptures of famous Mexican sculptor Sebastian were located.

scholarly journals Urban Art and place. Spatial patterns of urban art and their contribution to urban regeneration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Guerrero Balarezo ◽  
Kayvan Karimi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Spatial Relation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
And Gender

Cities face several challenges regarding public space and urban regeneration. Some of them are the depersonalization and lack of interest of citizens in their own city, privatization, gentrification, technologization and gender-insecurity. Public spaces lose their character as articulator and generator of human relations, while neighborhoods lose their role as the basic unity of community and urban identity. Nowadays, many bottom-up strategies have arisen as expressions of neighborhood’s inhabitant’s will, producing cultural diversity and civic engagement, with a placemaking effect. Urban art is one of them. Social and economic products of urban art have been studied, but the spatial manifestation and impact have been largely absent from the discourse of urban morphology. Spatial conditions are representational of social practices like art, by structuring patterns of movement, encounter and separation in the city (Cartiere & Zebracki, 2016). This study aims to discover the spatial relation between urban art displays and the network of public spaces, and whether this pattern has a role in neighborhood regeneration. To identify these relations in Shoreditch, London, Space Syntax analysis and spatial clustering were used, combined with a survey of geographically located public urban art (extracted from social networks data). Also, the spatial patterns of land prices and land uses from 1995 to 2016 were examined. Research showed that various types of artwork have a strong relation with certain spatial network characteristics and visibility of locations from each other. Economic and use outcomes were also related to the development of the art pattern through the years.

scholarly journals Urban Improvisations: The Profanatory Tactics of Spectacularized Spaces

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Berenstein Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The City

How can we think of micro-resistances or critical deviations to the contemporary process of urban spectacularization? This process generates both the pacification and the sacralization of public spaces in current projects of so-called urban regeneration. An interesting suggestion proposed in this paper is to think of improvisations as urban tactics of desecration in spectacularized public spaces, with a focus on the uses, practices, and popular appropriations already existing in the city—in particular in the opacity, vitality, and intensity of public life in the most popular and informal areas of the cities.

The Baratillo and the Enlightened City

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Author(s):  
Andrew Konove
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
The Government ◽  
A Site

This chapter examines the Baratillo’s role in Enlightenment-era reforms to Mexico City’s public administration and built environment. While New Spain’s Bourbon rulers took a number of steps to transform the physical and social worlds of Mexico City’s poor, the government never targeted the Baratillo—a site that was synonymous with crime, license, and plebeian sociability. To understand this apparent contradiction, the chapter examines the politics of urban reform in eighteenth-century Mexico City, which saw royal, viceregal, and local authorities jostle for control over urban public spaces.

scholarly journals Placemaking, livability and public spaces. Achieving sustainability through happy places

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marichela Sepe
Keyword(s):  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Observational Point ◽  
New Public ◽  
The City

<p>Livability of places is set by many factors which are in turn influenced by a variety of elements - both tangible and intangible - concerning the area in question and its surroundings. One of these factors is constituted by urban happiness, which, together with the term sustainability meant in its wide meaning, constitutes a key concept in placemaking. In this respect, a new attention to urban happiness has been given but often in terms of theoretical sense or from an observational point of view. Aim of this study is to present the Happy place mapping, a method of analysis specifically devoted to the identification of factors that influence the perception of happiness from the urban point of view. To illustrate the method, the emblematic HafenCity case study carried out in Hamburg is showed. A long process of urban regeneration is interesting this area and the new public spaces are changing the identity of the city, making it more livable and agreeable both for locals and visitors. The discussion on questions related to methods that concern intangible aspects and on Happy place mapping conclude the paper.</p>

scholarly journals A Heritage-Based Method to Urban Regeneration in Developing Countries: The Case Study of Luanda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4105
Author(s):  
Miguel Amado ◽  
Evelina Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Regeneration Process ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The City

In developing countries, where political instability, former conflicts and social breakdown take place, heritage can be included in urban regeneration processes as a driver for economic development but also for social cohesion and cultural identity. This paper presents a heritage-based method for urban regeneration, developed for the city of Luanda (Angola), within the elaboration of its Metropolitan Plan (2016). Actions focus on the rehabilitation of buildings and public spaces, creating the conditions to implement effective financial mechanisms able to cover the costs of urban regeneration by results. Here, rehabilitation measures are combined with the implementation of mixed-use development models, addressing one of the key issues of urban regeneration: attracting private investments. From a practical perspective, the proposed approach focusses on the elaboration of heritage preservation, valorization and requalification strategies, moving from a geographical urban delimitation of Heritage Sets to a regeneration process based on a radius of influence that goes beyond the single building. From the regeneration of the built environment and public spaces in these Heritage Sets, the surrounding area is naturally affected. Strategic actions applied to Heritage Sets aim to produce a domino effect of regeneration that involves multiple spatial scales: from buildings and public spaces to neighbourhoods and, consequently, to the entire city. The implementation of this approach to several Heritage Sets delimited across the city, would, in the long-term, create a connected heritage network that results in an integrated urban regeneration process. Criteria for the delimitation of Heritage Sets are proposed, dealing with the concept of diversity, namely: time, historical, symbolic and functional diversity. The results from this study aim to support decision-makers in integrating heritage-based urban regeneration approaches into public policies and local planning practice.

Civically Engaged Youth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de los Angeles Torres ◽  
Irene Rizzini ◽  
Norma Del Río
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Youth Civic Engagement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Lives

This book explores youth civic engagement in three global cities in the Americas: Chicago, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on interviews conducted by the authors in each of the three cities, the book examines the trajectories of youth activists: what influenced them to step out of their private lives and engage in public battles, how they engage to effectively influence institutions in urban spaces that affect their lives, and what kinds of activities they pursued. It also asks whether young people are given rights in the present, or whether they are only conceived as future citizens. This chapter discusses the changing place of youth in public discourse, along with changes in the nature of the public spaces in which young people engage. It also explains the book's definitions of youth and civic engagement, along with its methodology, and gives an overview of the three global cities.

scholarly journals Supervía poniente: conflicto social y visión urbano-ambiental / West Superhighway: Social Conflict and Urban-Environmental Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam C. Alfie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Sociedad Civil

En este texto se analiza el conflicto socio-espacial suscitado por el proyecto conocido como la “Supervía”, con objeto de explorar cómo se ha transformado el perfil de la Ciudad de México en aspectos tales como la movilidad, los espacios públicos y la infraestructura, así como en relación a la diversidad de nuevos actores sociales, organismos de defensa de derechos humanos y organizaciones de la sociedad civil, entre otros. Se rescata la concepción del espacio urbano marcado por la desigualdad y el conflicto, donde confluyen procesos productivos de urbanización y construcción con elementos sociales de  producción, intercambio y reproducción. El texto contribuye a entender el desarrollo del conflicto en torno al proyecto de la Supervía, la construcción de movimientos a su favor y en su contra, las identidades adquiridas y la falta de planeación urbana, así como los graves problemas de vialidad que presenta la Ciudad de México. Especial atención recibe el impacto ambiental que la carretera urbana ha provocado, así como los mecanismos de mediación y compensación practicados en la negociación del conflicto. AbstractThis paper analyzes the socio-spatial conflict caused by the project known as the “Superhighway,” in order to explore how it has transformed the profile of Mexico City in aspects such as mobility, public spaces and infrastructure and the link with the range of new social actors and human rights and civil society organizations. It explores the conception of urban space marked by inequality and conflict, where urbanization and construction coexist with social elements of production, exchange and reproduction. The text helps to explain the development of the conflict over the Superhighway project, the creation of movements for and against it, the identities acquired and the lack of urban planning, as well as Mexico City’s severe traffic problems. Special attention is paid to the environmental impact of the urban highway as well as the mediation and compensation mechanisms implemented during the negotiation of the conflict.

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