(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Nogales, Lucía
The displacements produced mainly from the capital to other areas of Peru during the period of quarantine to face the COVID-19 have once again highlighted the lack of capacity of the capital to guarantee a good quality of life for its inhabitants. This article takes these displacements as a symbol of Lima's overflow, and proposes to understand and address the rest of the urban centers of the territory. After reviewing the heterogeneity of these centers, the article questions their true urban character, joining the criticism of hegemonic Euro-American urban theories, which consolidate the traditional urban-rural binomial. The article calls for the development of systems that blur or even dissolve the boundaries between urban and rural, integrating resilient urban-rural systems with a better relationship with their environment and sources of supply in order to face the great challenge of the 21st century, the environmental crisis and its derivatives.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Jaime, Eugenia; Salvarredy, Julián
During the last twenty years, public policies for neighborhood improvement have been developed in the region with the purpose of urbanizing precarious settlements. However, these interventions have affected a relevant mass of inhabitants to fully develop their right to the city. On the other hand, the obstacles that faced the settlers to transit these processes in an appropriate manner are significant, according to Lefebvre's terms, as a condition for a just and democratic production.This article reflects, based on the work of the civil association Proyecto Habitar, in alliance with the Defensoría General de la Nación Argentina during 2018, on the role played by appropriation in urbanization processes that include population relocation, specifically the implementation of a public policy of neighborhood improvement in Villa Jardín - Lanús in Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. For the analysis, three dimensions were established: technical-constructive aspects, the socio-organizational aspect and, finally, the political and institutional aspects. This multidimensional approach seeks to identify the role of ownership in achieving and realizing the right to the city.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Castán Broto, Vanessa; Osuteye, Emmanuel; Ortiz, Catalina; Lipietz, Barbara; Johnson, Cassidy; Kombe, Wilbard
This working paper serves as the basis for a critical examination of the notion of knowledge co-production. The paper examines how the idea of knowledge co-production has emerged in relation to the parallel but distinct concept of service co-production and the participatory development planning tradition. It also examines the variety of processes of knowledge co-production that may take place in the context of academic research.In doing so, the working paper highlights the centrality of knowledge co-production in the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) project’s research strategy, with a focus on actionable knowledge that may support transformative trajectories towards urban equality. Such an approach is based on the view that knowledge production underpins the process, ethics, and outcomes of any urban development intervention. Using well-documented examples of knowledge co-production in urban equity research, the article discusses how co-production is carried out in practice. Focusing on how co-production is used in active research also helps to identify some key constraints and challenges, as well as existing mechanisms for overcoming them. This discussion leads to a proposed research agenda on knowledge co-production in the context of the KNOW project.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Vera Cubas, Javier
The objective of this article is to show new possibilities of facing urban inequalities from the architectural point of view, in the current context of the city of Lima. Based on the hypothesis that inequality is a structural problem of Peruvian society, the attempts to confront it from the disciplines of architecture and urbanism ends up encouraging it, since the projects are elaborated from tools and methodologies disseminated by the same system that produces such inequalities. Based on a theoretical framework that criticizes the neoliberal urbanism, this paper analyzes a series of research-action projects (carried out in peripheral areas in Lima in the last five years, with the participation of the author) that propose urban regeneration based on recovering the public space, where architecture is used as a means to question socio-spatial dynamics and provoke positive conflicts that make possible the conquest of citizenship through the full exercise of the right to the city.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Maccaglia, Marta
In Peru there are 48 native languages, 11 ecological regions, 84 of the 117 different «life zones» in the world. Can architects operate from an active and participatory action with respect that strengthens the social habitat to combat inequality? If architecture is an art that generates spaces for better living, architects have the responsibility to understand and respect the territory and the people, to propose spaces that represent the culture and spirit of each place.However, in cities we live between physical walls that highlight inequalities and make visible the fear we have of others. In the peripheral areas and, even more, in the rural areas of the country, we contribute a system than abandon the most vulnerable communities. Faced with this scenario, we believe that the first wall we have to tear down is a wall in our minds, and this is only possible through equal access to education. For this reason, we are interested in educational architecture projects: the school, the first place after the home, where children can develop by learning in society.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Zeballos Velarde, Carlos
This article seeks to understand the characteristics of the physical and social fragmentation of the city of Arequipa by exploring the historical evolution of its neighborhoods, which are fundamental elements of the city, both in their physical-spatial and socio-cultural configuration. The analysis of the structure of the neighborhoods, their configuration and transformation can contribute to understanding the dynamics and characteristics of the city. To this end, we explore the evolution of the pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican city from the generation of neighborhoods, and the implications that this had on the social divisions in Arequipa. It then discusses the role of urban planning since the second half of the twentieth century and how, on many occasions, it has emphasized dismemberment, fragmentation and marginality instead of being an agent of articulation. Finally, an urban renewal alternative is proposed that promotes social, urban and environmental integration in the periphery of Arequipa, through the development of a network of neighborhood centralities.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-30) Aletta, Luciano
Urban inequality can be defined as the difference in living conditions between people of the same urban agglomeration. A disparity of status that stands out in the physical structure of the urban fabric – such as in the presence or absence of public transport, basic infrastructure networks, public spaces, schools, healthcare centers or housing provision – but above all in the possibilities of its inhabitants to get access to land and to take part in the democratic process of city-making. But how such an imbalance is produced and what is the role of the built space within this process of differentiation? Is the urban fabric simply being shaped by this condition, or it has a major role in the production and reproduction of social injustice?
