Abstract

MURILLO, Fernando. Ciudades primadas latinoamericanas : ¿hacia una nueva agenda urbana de mejoramiento y prevención de asentamientos informales?. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.21. ISSN 1853-3655.

Main latinamerican cities: toward a new urban agenda for improving or preventing informal settlements? This paper explores how a new urban agenda is emerging to deal integrally and systematically with the problem of the proliferation of informal settlements in the main cities of Latin-America. As such it analyzes the complementarity between urban intervention plans and projects framed within human rights principles, such as adequate housing and in a broader conceptual context, of the city as such. This approach has created a technical-political genealogy of urban models highly infuential among the countries of the region. It highlights as a central factor in understanding the rise of this genealogy, the prime character of these larger cities, with huge asymmetries of economic power with regard the to the rest of their respective countries' urban systems, warning that such "politically correct" features, can hide manipulative practices that far from fulflling progressively the basic human rights of their populations, tend to consolidate the fragmentation and segregation from opportunities of progress and development created by these prime cities.

Keywords : Urban planning; Popular Habitat, Upgrade and prevention of informal settlements.

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