social struggle for public spaces in guayaquil
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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
Academy and citizens symbiosis for the public spaces struggle in Guayaquil
Luis Alfonso Saltos Espinoza
C R E AT I V E A D J A C E N C I E ST R A C K 1 / P u b l i c S p a c e : s p a c e s f o r a l l ?
June 3rd 2014, Ghent - Belgium
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lA r c h i t e c t u r e , D e s i g n a n d U r b a n i s m
Architects / Urban Planners
Buildings / Urban Planning
EDUCATION
Urban Centers / Cities
Public Sector Private Sector
Technical and Social components
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lA r c h i t e c t u r e , D e s i g n a n d U r b a n i s m
EDUCATION
How the student profile should be?
Technical background
Social background
Social consciousness
Investigation / Participation
Interaction between
universities and government institutions
What is the current involvement of Academic Architectural Studies in the urban/architectonical development processes of Guayaquil?
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lI n t r o d u c ti o n – C a s e G u a y a q u i l
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
From the beginning, the new local government undertook a campaign of “urban cleansing" starting from his own building, and later moved to the streets and then to the public spaces of the city.
http://especiales.eluniverso.com/otroguayaquil/informales-entre-la-oportunidad-y-la-persecucion/
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lT h e A g e o f U r b a n G e n e r a ti o n
It is necessary to show the areas and spaces that have undergone reconstruction, while covering up and hiding the undesirable portion of the population.
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lC i t y A w a k e n i n g – T h e G e n e r a ti o n o f R e g e n e r a ti o n
Menor de 1 año
De 1 a 4 años
De 5 a 9 años
De 10 a 14 años
De 15 a 19 años
De 20 a 24 años
De 25 a 29 años
De 30 a 34 años
De 35 a 39 años
De 40 a 44 años
De 45 a 49 años
De 50 a 54 años
De 55 a 59 años
De 60 a 64 años
De 65 a 69 años
De 70 a 74 años
De 75 a 79 años
De 80 a 84 años
De 85 a 89 años
De 90 a 94 años
De 95 a 99 años
De 100 años y más
0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000
Urban population by age group in GuayaquilSource: INEC 2011
1990 10 years old2014 34 years old
2000 10 years old2014 24 years old
I Group
II Group
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lC i t y A w a k e n i n g – T h e G e n e r a ti o n o f R e g e n e r a ti o n
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lC i t y A w a k e n i n g – T h e G e n e r a ti o n o f R e g e n e r a ti o n
Young citizens continue their social struggle with many demonstrations throughout the city attempting to promote change in the neoliberal model that excludes informal mercantilism, freedom of dress, minority groups, international models of social and urban architecture in favor of privatized public spaces.
But this is a battle without the support of academic institutions backing these claims and avoiding proposals and possible solutions in the field of the architecture, design and urban social engineering.
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lA n d n o w … ?
Course of studies like architecture, design and urbanism have many qualities and strengths that other professions do not have or have in less quantities, in being both technical and social at the same time. This combination fosters a more direct approach to citizenship and helps to propose urban-architectural solutions by acknowledging the social problems that afflict them.
In the case of Guayaquil, where the "Urban Regeneration" projects have caused urban fragmentation due to the loss of public spaces by the exclusion of various social groups considered undesirable, with a vision towards the tourist and commercial development, the citizen’s rights are traded in for a biased model of progress and social cleansing, where both the people and the local government forget that “the right to the city cannot be conceived of as a simple visiting right or as a return to traditional cities. It can only be formulated as a transformed and renewed right to urban life”. (Lefebvre, 1996)
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S o c i a l S t r u g g l e fo r P u b l i c S p a c e s i n G u ay a q u i lA n d n o w … ?
So what can be done to change this urban reality? Criticism within the walls of the academic schools through books or papers is not enough. The Academic leaders must become executioners socialized proposals that benefit everyday citizens, especially at the neighborhood level, because this is the closest to a territorial unit in the daily life of city dwellers. The joint work between academia and civil society can be achieved through mechanisms and initiatives for participation in public spaces, producing a sense of belonging and empowerment of the community.
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