Last decades witnessed the increasing devolution of responsibilities to local governments and a shift from managerial to entrepreneurial urban governance, leaving urban policy driven overwhelmingly by a focus on economic competitiveness and growth. Against that trend Susan Fainstein and the just city conceptualization proposes an urban theory of justice, contending that justice in the urban context should be understood to encompass dimensions of democracy, equity, and diversity and that all public decision making should privilege justice. Within that framework this project propose a cross-analysis between urban policies and the idea of just city in Ibero-American cities focusing on experiences, debates and critiques of urban mega-projects, urban tourism and citizens’ initiatives.

 

Organismo financiador: Unión Iberoamericana de Universidades (UIU). Convocatoria de proyectos de investigación 2019.

Entidades: Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Coordinador: Dr. D. Guillermo Jajamovich (Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe de la Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Miembros del equipo Universidad Complutense: Manuel de la Calle Vaquero (IP), María Velasco González, María García Hernández, Sofía Mendoza de Miguel y Elena Ferreiro Calzada

Ejecución: 2019-2020.