Hábitat y sociedad - 2015 - Nº 8

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Alimentación responsable en la escuela pública. Una experiencia de eco-comedor autogestionado. (CEIP "Gómez Moreno. Albayzín. Granada)
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Fuentes-Guerra Soldevilla, Rafael; Toral López, Isabel; Martín Fuentes, Araceli
At CEIP Gomez Moreno Infant and Primary School –a recognised state school in Granada’s Albayzin neighbourhood–, a group of parents, strongly committed to a Universal and Public education system as a tool to correct social inequalities, has taken on the direct management of complementary and extracurricular school services, in order to give back to society applying the specific skills and qualifications of the school community from a democratic and civic participation perspective. Among the services comprehensively and voluntarily managed by the parents’ association (AMPA in Spanish), the most successful one having the highest impact on the educational community is the school’s dining hall service, which includes the use of local and organic produce, as opposed to a general process currently taking place in Andalusia by which catering services subsidiary to large business groups are being widely implemented, leading to the indirect privatization of this public service. The results: the forceful assertion of public education, both inside and outside the community context, by means of a daily dining service with an on site kitchen serving locally sourced and organic meals; high levels of satisfaction from its users; the achievement of parents’ empowerment, as co-responsible citizens for the proper functioning of the public education service in the path towards excellence; and the contribution to the consolidation of sustainable social models.
Unidad de Acción Comprometida: una propuesta de solución ante el problema universitario del servicio a la sociedad
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Manzano Arrondo, Vicente; Suárez García, Enrique; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Psicología Experimental
The three traditionally assumed functions of the university (teaching, research, and knowledge transfer) have been suffering problems of mismatching (applications with different directions for each function), imbalance (some functions being more relevant than others), and of orientation (difficulties orienting work towards a service to society). Currently, market orientation clashes with 3covers university activity in its three commitments, thereby generating specific problems. This document analyses this situation and proposes Units of Committed Action as a contribution towards the set of solution strategies that are being generated to guide the university towards the service of common good, adjust the three commitments, and to foment a balance in each of their weights. The Units of Committed Action work along the same lines as Participatory Action Research and those of Service Learning, whose particularities are also addressed here. Finally, a specific application is presented in a neighbourhood catalogued as a zone in need of social transformation.
El rol de los servicios urbanos en la legalización predial y la generación de calidad urbana y valor del suelo. Aplicación al caso de Cúcuta (Colombia)
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Urazán Bonells, Carlos Felipe; Magrinyà Torner, Francesc
The growing phenomenon of urbanization in developing countries has led to a large number of settlements characterized by a deficient habitat (slums), lacking security of tenure and an adequate provision of urban services that affect the quality of the lives of its citizens. Over time, these settlements are improving their standards of quality in the provision of public services and their security of tenure. The interrelationship between security of tenure, improved urban services and housing improvement provides the key to evaluating the actions that improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. The proposed approach involves the establishment of a methodology for reading the evolution of the forms of urban growth in terms of incremental levels of security of tenure (P), urban services (U), and building (E). In order to develop the analysis, an urban periphery index has been developed, based on the forms of evolutionary growth, improved services and security tenure, as well as on accessibility (distance to the centre and slope). The analysis of the correlation between the urban periphery index and the spatial distribution of social strata and land values, in the evolution of the urbanization of the city of Cucuta (Colombia), highlights the relevance of the elements of the urban periphery index as key factors to improve the quality of life...
La vivienda y la sustentabilidad en la Riviera Maya: los desbordes del turismo
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Bagnera, Paola; Pennisi, Belén
Access to urban land of the tourist 1cities 2towns of the Mexican Caribbean demonstrates an 1unequal 2unfair and fragmented configuration where social housing embodies responses that, with uncertain degree of sustainability, reproduces inequitable conditions on the exercise of the right to the town. This study presents the results of the recognition of this particular production of residential borders in localities of Quintana Roo, Mexico: Cozumel, Playa del Carmen and Tulúm, by taking into account not only the physical materialization and urban configuration but also its social value. These dwellings involve comprehensive recognition that is based on the hypothesis that all manifestations of urban precariousness imply an unsustainable expression in its configuration: as can be observed in the Mayan coastal habitat.
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.
Influencia de la ESCALA de decisión e intervención en el proceso de mejora y producción social del hábitat (La gestión y el control social de la ciudad)
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) Lorenzo Gálligo, Pedro
Housing constitutes an essential part of the human habitat of a city. The fact of accommodating or being accommodated can produce overflows or can suffer the presence of overflows (social, economic, physical) produced by others. Populations , in order to be housed, can either settle in the living space provided by others (for the market) or they can create their own home, their own town (to inhabit). In order to subsequently improve their habitat or to prevent habitat degradation or destruction (usually by economic pressure), they try to individually or collectively influence the decisions and management of the continuous process of evolution and transformation of their neighbourhood, city, country… This process can be affected by various factors (social, economic, cultural, physical, and environmental), agents (people, politicians, technicians, producers, and capital), and mechanisms (theories, policies, programs, projects, and techniques). A decisive factor in the outcome of the process is the scale on which this occurs (individual home, collective housing, neighbourhood, city, country, geo-economic area, global). Seven examples of the relationship scale-factorsagents- mechanisms of improvement, creation of habitat are analysed in Spain. The conclusion is: a) Not on all scales did this relationship perform equally; b) Achieving the habitat on the proper scale can influence and transform decisions regarding habitat on other scales.
Des-Bordes urbanos: un concepto en construcción
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015) López Medina, José; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica
The expression urban unboundings is working as a driving force for a collective reflection about urban peripheries in Latin America and Spain: a reflection which intends to generate useful knowledge that can be applied in terms of diagnosis and intervention. The notion of limit, inherent to town planning and revitalized today from an ecological point of view, as well as the concept of border, which takes us back to binomials of high theoretical relevance, such as inclusion- exclusion and centre-periphery, engage with the metaphor urban unboundings to shine a light on new perspectives of analysis. To consider the peripheral city in terms of unboundings leads us to wonder not just what unbounds and how, but also for what reason and for whom. In this regard, it introduces a political vision that enables urban phenomena to be interpreted in terms of the articulation of actors and balances of power, inherent in the mechanisms of control and planning. This in turn allows us to interpret the phenomenon as desirable or non-desirable depending on social equality and environmental sustainability. From this type of speculative analysis, in line with the logic of each local context, are derived reflections and tools that can be useful for the policy, project and management of urban peripheries.

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