Abstract

ZAPATA, María Cecilia. Social participation in the urbanization of emergency settlements. A practice that facilitates the right to the city?. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.1, pp.91-102.  Epub Apr 06, 2020. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v30n1.82559.

Lefebvre, in 1969, reflected on the right of the inhabitants to make decisions that affect the city they inhabit. Based on the re-urbanization processes that were deployed in two emergency settlements of the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) since 2016, this article reflects on the social participation designed in urbanization projects as strategies enabling access to this right. For this purpose, a qualitative methodological strategy was used that combined primary and secondary data from semi-structured interviews to key informants, observations not participating in the emergency settlements and in multi-acting meetings and documentary analysis. As a main finding, it is suggested that although multiple instances of participation were designed from the local management units of each neighborhood, at the territorial level differences were generated in the possibility of recreating the right to the city of its inhabitants. For while, in one neighborhood the spaces for decision-making legitimized a housing policy of valorization of the neoliberal city, in the other, certain instances of consensus and real participation were enabled that resulted in active decision-making by residents.

Keywords : right to housing; social participation; neoliberalism; housing policy; urbanization; Buenos Aires.

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