The city of globalization, vulnerability and redesign for the appreciation to place

Abstract

The panorama of the city of globalization does not correspond to the yearning and search for progress of millions of inhabitants, low-income sectors now face at an individual or collective level, to insecurity and uncertainty, in an environment of defenselessness before an ineffective State. In the last twenty years the asymmetries of access to the city and conditions of inequality are accentuated in Latin America. In the global city, urban vulnerability is the result of a development based on an open economy and a state weakened by the functioning of the global market, diminishing or privatizing social benefits. Post-humanism, integration, landscape ecology, urban acupuncture and sustainable development are spatial patterns of organization that serve the natural, territorial and urban dimensions, through the participation of citizens. This paper offers a general panorama of the transformations in the city, identifying rehabilitation alternatives that, through management and social capital at the local level, establish transformative and change actions in the urban environment. The results of the CONAVI-CONACYT research carried out in three cities of Mexico are used.