Hábitat y sociedad - 2015 - Nº 8

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    Barcelona, caminando hacia la resiliencia urbana en el barrio de Vallcarca
    (Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Balanzo Joue, Rafael de
    Many neighbourhoods and cities are succumbing to multiple and successive changes caused by internal collapse and external systemic crises. The neighbourhood of Vallcarca in the Gràcia district has become an urban landmark of the city of Barcelona. It is characterized equally by belonging to one of the first districts of Barcelona to implement policies of urban sustainability, and by succumbing for more than a decade to a process of crisis, devastation and conflict induced by a development plan based on the demolition/new construction precept. This research uses the adaptive cycle heuristic and the theory of panarchy (Holling and Gunderson, 2002) to identify the development of resilience in the dynamics of urban practices in the neighbourhood from a new systemic, evolutionary and multi-scale vision used for the study of socio-ecological systems in the field of ecology, and of governance policies. This vision has, as yet, been only minimally applied in urban environments. Furthermore, it is a given fact that research has been conducted through the participant observation methodology throughout the urbanization process of the last 12 years. The resilience construction process of the Vallcarca district starts from a first, predictable, and institutionalized long period of impoverishment with rigid urban planning of inflexible development. The district takes advantage of a window of opportunity for change and initiates a second stage of revival and innovative reorganization to build resilience. This process materializes thanks to relationships of memory and a return to panarchy (Gunderson, 2010) and to inter-scalar and extra- scalar relations of the agents and transformational institutions (Westley et al., 2013). The attributes of selforganization, adaptability, diversity, learning, and innovation are highlighted as key strategies for adaptive and resilient management of habitat.