Santiago, Chile's semi-arid climate and urbanized environment poses a severe limitation for the establishment and maintenance of urban forests. Municipalities, or comunas, are the main stakeholders in the management of ...

Facing global climate challenges and the search for sustainable development, the creation of parks in urban areas has become a strategy to deal with these issues. Among the green areas of cities, the Urban Park is a category ...

In this paper, we identify the essential organizational characteristics of local government that are crucial for smart urban governance. To do, we conducted a systematic review of 96 articles on this theme. Through a ...

This article, an excerpt of the doctorate thesis Trajectories of the urban planning in Araraquara: from the power to decisive centralism to the participative managing plan, intends to dimension the forged urban chain in ...

Urban agriculture came to stand out in the world scenario in the last years of the twentieth century and beginning of the XXI, due to the greater concern of the population with food security and the aggravation of social, ...

“Festive urban events” (EUF) stand out not only as new social practices, but also as urbanactions providing a basis for urban research. Compared to "traditional" urban actions and current methods of public space management, ...

© 2019 Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved. The construction of public spaces is strategic for urban governance, since it creates symbols of political legitimacy while at the same time specifying the ...

Given the limited capacity of the public sector in Bolivia to provide basic services and infrastructure, within the metropolitan area of Cochabamba, multiple neighborhood organizations have developed practices and strategies ...