The city is a forward-looking project rooted in existing challenges and dynamics. This tension has been especially apparent in the 21st century, when city projects have been contending with great changes in different areas of society: globalization, technology (third and fourth industrial revolutions), economy (neoliberalism), state reform, among others. For this reason, city projects must increasingly employ a plural vision.
This second volume on the topic of the city as a project draws on a framework informed by historical examples presented in volume one to provide an overview of major theoretical and methodological advances in project formulation in the 21st century. Presenting classifications and analysis of contemporary cities and approaches, the contributions in this book illustrate diverse visions of the city. These perspectives collectively contribute to an understanding of the conditions that generate new inequalities and integrations in ongoing and imminent city projectsand thus evaluate the cities we seek to build.
Part 1: Introduction.- The city project in the 21st century: Unity in
diversity.- Part 2: Central ideas in city projects.- Urban planning: For what
city project?- Main contributions to urban theory: 50 years of (R)Evolution
in Europe, the United States and Latin America.- Borders and their urban
scales. Migrations and Latin American cities in the 21st century.- Part 3:
Tributary projects of the crises.- Medellķn, through Total Peace to The
City Project.- Medellķn between myths and realities The Arduous citizen
construction facing the urban crisis.- Housing violence: The creation of the
capital of security.- Part 4: The neoliberal city Project.- Santiago de
Chile, the production of neoliberal space.- Shaping Santiago: Neoliberalism
and infrastructure development during the Chilean dictatorship. The case of
metro S.A.- Guayaquil: Management model and implementation of the market
city.- Urban transformation under neoliberal policy: The hypermodern
monterrey.- Part 5: Promotion of the city project Anchored in the recovery of
history.- Puerto Madero and the material, symbolic, relational and
territorial production of a mega-project.- The heritage city: Aesthetics,
politics, and crisis in Quito's historic center.- Tourism and architectural
heritage consumption: The case of the city centre of Bologna, Italy.-
Innovations in the management of natural heritage: A comparative analysis of
three supralocal plans in Bologna.- Part 6: The city project in the
international sphere.- 22@ innovation district: Remaking the post-Olympic
Barcelona model.- Internationalization as a driving force for Barcelonas
city project: An Agonistic and political insight.- New York City: Its
reconceptualization and unraveling as an economic project (1970s-2010s).-
Part 7: The city project that emerges from anthropic and natural risks.-
Historic center of Popayįn Challenges and Tensions post 1983 earthquake.-
Part 8: City projects resulting from democratization processes.- Madrid: From
dictatorship to democracy. Winning the cultural battle, leading urban
history.- Bogotį: A laboratory for national electoral tendencies.- A city of
rights: Mexico city.- Part 9: The turn to the left as a city Project.- From
capital city to national Government: The failure of the Peruvian left.- Care
from above and care from below. Urban inequality and community
collectivization of care.- Local Governments and social participation:
Pathways and setbacks of the Porto Alegre participatory Budget.- Montevideo
and progressivism: Towards a cooperative city?- Part 10: The popular city
Project.- Production and social management of habitat and housing in Mexico.-
Government in plurinationality and interculturality: The case of the city of
Quito.- Part 11: The citizen urbanism Project.- The 15-minute city model: An
integrated urban approach and a game changing lifestyle narrative.- A plural
and feminist agenda for inclusive urban planning.- The city of the
neighborhood, central element of citizen urbanism.- Part 12: The virtual city
Project.- The virtual city in the 21st century: Exploring the role of digital
platforms in urban evolution.- Urban hybridity: Juxtaposition of physical and
virtual spaces.- Digital twin cities: Virtual city, real city.- Part 13:
Epilogue.- Epilogue. The city project: 21st century.
Fernando Carrión Mena is a Research Professor at the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. His focus of study are the topics of: housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1000 journalistic articles and 306 academic articles, published 74 books (editor of 52 and author of 22) and edited 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He has worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career he received 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinctions of honored citizen.
Emilia Silva Arias is a Researcher of the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. Clinical Psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Master in Sociology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Flacso-Ecuador and has a diploma in Theories and Policies of the Contemporary City from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-X). Her main lines of research revolve around: cities, digital economies, labor platforming, globalization and gender.
