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Ciudad de México: ¿Para la gente, o para el mercado? con Prof. Victor Delgadillo
¡Feliz diciembre!
En el último año, nos escucharon casi 9,000 veces, y se sumaron casi 700 seguidores más en Spotify. Por eso, quería compartirles un episodio de temporadas pasadas que estuvo entre los episodios más escuchados: la entrevista que Santiago Echarri y yo le hicimos al Profesor Victor Delgadillo, professor de la UNAM e intelectual público que defiende el derecho a la ciudad.
Hablamos de dos artículos el primero titulado: "Ciudad de México: Quince Años de Desarrollo Urbano Intensivo: La Gentrificación Percibida" y el segundo escrito para El País para un público más amplio que se titula "Ciudad de México: ¿Para la gente o para el mercado?". Discutimos temas que siguen siendo muy pertinentes: la gentrificación en Ciudad de México, las políticas de Desarrollo urbano y la creación de lo que el Prof. denomina un “casino inmobiliario”.
Quería compartirles este episodio de nuevo porque siento que el Profesor Delgadillo combina una pasión y lucha por la defensa del derecho ala ciudad con un conocimiento enciclopédico de su historia. En este sentido, creo que es un modelo a seguir para quienes estudiamos y luchamos por las ciudades latinaomericanas más justas e incluyentes.
Victor Delgadillo es Profesor investigador de la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. Doctor en Urbanismo de la UNAM, y sus líneas de investigación incluyen: Centros Históricos Latinoamericanos, Gentrificación; Derecho a la Ciudad y más.
Santiago Echarri es Arquitecto por la UNAM, y actualmente está estudiando una maestría en urbanismo en la ETSAB. Estudia financiarización de la ciudad, los procesos de segregación urbana y las posibilidades estéticas del paisaje construido y tiene su propia práctica de arquitectura
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What Do We Owe Each Other? Operationalizing Social Protections with Gautam Bhan
"A global pandemic has brought renewed attention to an
old question: what do we owe each other? " The crisis of the COVID-19 brought this question to a head, and with it, calls for rethinking a “new social contract” that would outlast the emergency measures, a social contract rooted in mutual aid, yes, but also a stronger, more active, welfare state. It also made painfully urgent to consider the process by which these measures were operationalized; that is, by which the intentions of the state to reach the most marginalized groups of urban residents were put into practice, given that these resdents and workers were also the least visible, often informal, and therefore illegible to the state.
Gautam Bhan's article "Operationalising Social Protection: Reflections from Urban India" addresses this very question. Drawing from empirical cases at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bhan explores how the social contract plays out through social protection systems, arguing that how we deliver both existing and new entitlements is as important as deciding what entitlements urban residents should be entitled to.
We discuss four challenges:
(a) residence as an operational barrier;
(b) workplaces (thru informal worker orgs) as sites of delivery;
(c) working w worker orgs as delivery infrastructures; and
(d) building systems of recognition and registration of informal workers.
Bhan also points out how the different trajectories of Brazil and India changed inequality, finding that the ecosystem of social protections (in education, housing, cash transfers and the right to the city) backed by social movements rose the conditions for the bottom 30% of Brazilians.
For Bhan, “operational knowledge is essential to imagine what Simone and Pieterse (2017) describe as ‘grounded and speculative alternatives’” - and in this text, he reveals operationalization to be a profound reflection on putting solidarity in action.
Gautam Bhan is an urbanist whose work focuses on urban
poverty, inequality, social protection and housing. He is currently Associate Dean of the School of Human Development, at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements School, and the Senior Lead in Academics and Researhc
at this same institution. He holds a PhD in urban studies and planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pranav Kuttaiah is a researcher and writer from Bengaluru, India currently pursuing a PhD in City and Regional Planning (with designated emphases in Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies) at UC Berkeley.
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Operações Urbanas: Teoria e Prática com Camila Maleronka
Neste episódio discutimos com a urbanista Camila
Maleronka as Operações Urbanas Consorciadas, instrumentos responsáveis por grandes transformações em cidades brasileiras. Em São Paulo, por exemplo, onde o instrumento nasceu e foi mais implementado, as operações urbanas foram responsáveis por intensificar e direcionar a atividade imobiliária e investimentos públicos para certos bairros. Ao mesmo tempo, muitos argumentam que são elas as responsáveis por agravar ou mesmo causar processos de gentrificação e exclusão de famílias mais vulneráveis desses mesmos locais. Vamos discutir essas e outras questões!
Camila Maleronka é urbanista e consultora em habitação, planejamento e instrumentos de financiamento urbano. Colaboradora do Instituto Lincoln em programas sobre gestão fundiária, recuperação da valorização da terra e instrumentos de financiamento. Desde 2020, é professora da disciplina de Instrumentos de Financiamento e Política Fundiária do curso de pós-graduação em Urbanismo Social do Insper. É doutora em Urbanismo pela Universidade
de São Paulo.
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Surviving a lo Bori con Rafael Pabón Ortega
Esto es un desafío al orden establecido, una invitación a transgredir, a romper el cerco. Son historias ordinarias y cotidianas, de amores y desamores, del prójimo y del próximo, de muertos y vivos, de locos y cuerdos, de desacuerdos, de un país en cantos y del desencanto, de las visitas al baño y de la oveja negra que perdió el rebaño, del macharrán y del sacristán, del bien y el mal, de los excesos, y del poco seso, de mis desvelos y de un poco de eso.
Hoy en Sur-Urbano, tenemos un episodio un poco diferente. Entrevistamos al cronista puertoriqueño Rafaél Pabón, quien acaba de lanzar un nuevo libro lamado “Surviving a lo Bori”. Como las crónicas del libro, en este episodio hablamos de todo un poquito: de la historia familiar de Rafael en San Juan, de las nostalgias de un boricua en Nueva York, de la música, política y por supuesto, de los mundos urbanos que nos inspiran.
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Justice and equity in transportation systems with Rafael Pereira
What is a fair transportation system? What does it mean to say that a particular place is a transportation desert? Are measure of transportation poverty and equity absolute or relative? How do you define a poverty line in terms of accessibility? In this episode, co-host Gregorio Luz and host Flávia Leite speak with Brazilian researcher Rafael Pereira of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a reference in urban analytics, spatial data science and transportation studies. Based on a recent paper by him and professors Alex Karner and Steven Farber, "Advances and pitfalls in measuring transportation equity," our interviewee answers these and other questions, and also delves into more philosophical questions about what fairness and equity are in urban studies.
“Sur-urbano” is a podcast where we talk to leading scholars, planners and activists on Latin American cities about their work, the cities they love and how to make them better.
Produced by the Latin American Cities Working Group, based at UC - Berkeley, and hosted by Isabel Peñaranda Currie. To find out more, or to cohost, reach us at @latam_cities.
Made possible thanks to UC Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies and to the Center of Latin American Studies.
Music: Jaime Alejandro Angarita
Art: Rachel Meirs - https://www.instagram.com/rachel.meirs/
Production: Francesca Fenzi