scholarly journals Urban conflicts for the space. The case of Manizales, Colombia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirosława Czerny ◽  
Andrzej Czerny
Keyword(s):  
Urban Conflicts

scholarly journals Touristification, Sharing Economies and the New Geography of Urban Conflicts

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis del Romero Renau
Keyword(s):  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
International Financial Crisis ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Controversial Problem ◽  
Tourist Accommodation ◽  
New Geography ◽  
Urban Conflicts

The aim of this study was to address the highly controversial problem of the increasing touristification of urban centers, analyzing the case of Valencia. The paper begins with a theoretical reflection to disambiguate the term “sharing economy”, the emergence of all kinds of digital service platforms that are revolutionizing traditional economic sectors of services, such as transport, tourist accommodation, or personal services. The new geography of urban conflicts that has arisen in recent years in this city, largely as a consequence of the paradigm of the collaborative economy in the tourism sector, was analyzed. This situation contrasts sharply with the panorama of conflicts that existed before and during the international financial crisis. Finally, the main social, economic and environmental impacts of collaborative economies are discussed, from the approach of a new phase in neoliberal capitalism.

Urban growth and royal interventionism in late medieval Castile

Urban History ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Del Val Valdivieso
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Conflicts

ABSTRACTThroughout the late Middle Ages, Castilian towns underwent a process of rapid economic and political growth which the monarchy sought to control. Accordingly, the monarchy reoriented its policies towards the towns. It attempted to impose the figure of the ‘corregidor’, the representative and defender of royal interests; it intervened wherever possible in the appointment of local government offices; it played its part in urban conflicts, alternately supporting opposing factions in an effort to take advantage of the situation and secure its own interests; and finally, the state established regulations governing economic activity. The process of royal intervention culminated under the Catholic monarchs (1474–1504) with what can be considered as a royal triumph.

Guns, Slums, and “Yellow Devils”: A Genealogy of Urban Conflicts in Karachi, Pakistan

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENT GAYER
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Ethnic Enclaves ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Ethnic Parties ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Conflicts

Karachi is a city of migrants and an important commercial hub, which provides Pakistan with a window on the world. But Karachi is also a deeply fragmented city, plagued by an acute urban crisis that takes roots in the failure of the development plans that successive Pakistani governments have delegated to foreign experts. The transnationalisation of the Afghan jihad, in the 1980s, also fuelled social and ethnic antagonisms in the city and contributed to the proliferation of violent entrepreneurs and ethnic parties. Both criminal elements and ethnic activists contributed to the ever-increasing fragmentation of urban space in the city, and to the multiplication of ethnic enclaves controlled by private militias. This extreme fragmentation of the city has benefited local jihadis and foreign terrorists who have taken shelter here since the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. However, Karachi will never be a “sanctuary” for jihadi militants, due to the hostility of local ethnic parties, whose activists see themselves as enlightened secularists at war with the most retrograde elements of their society and their foreign allies.

Social Movements Taking Place in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-245
Author(s):  
Emilio Pradilla Cobos ◽  
Felipe de Jesús Moreno Galván ◽  
Ernesto García López
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Metropolitan University ◽  
Metropolitan Zone ◽  
Urban Conflicts

This idea compels the authors, at least, to take a quick look, with limitations by the length of the text, to some of the manifestations of the crisis situation prevailing in the country during the period of imposition of the neoliberal pattern of capital accumulation and to the essential features and the contradictions that it has printed to the great metropolis and national capital. From this outline, in the central part of this work, they analyze the specific characteristics of the social movements and the actions that they have developed in the metropolis, between 2011 and 2018, registered in the Laboratory of Urban Conflicts of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Unit Xochimilco.

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