From the City as a Project to the City Project

Fernando Carrión Mena is a Research Professor at the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. His focus of study are the topics of: housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1000 journalistic articles and 306 academic articles, published 74 books (editor of 52 and author of 22) and edited 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He has worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career he received 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinctions of honored citizen.Emilia Silva Arias is a Researcher of the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. Clinical Psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Master in Sociology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Flacso-Ecuador and has a diploma in Theories and Policies of the Contemporary City from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-X). Her main lines of research revolve around: cities, digital economies, labor platforming, globalization and gender.

• Part 1:    Introduction.- The city project in the 21st century: Unity in diversity.- Part 2: Central ideas in city projects.- Urban planning: For what city project?- Main contributions to urban theory: 50 years of (R)Evolution in Europe, the United States and Latin America.- Borders and their urban scales. Migrations and Latin American cities in the 21st century.- Part 3: Tributary projects of the crises.- Medellín, through “Total Peace” to “The City Project”.- Medellín between myths and realities – The Arduous citizen construction facing the urban crisis.- Housing violence: The creation of the capital of security.- Part 4: The neoliberal city Project.- Santiago de Chile, the production of neoliberal space.- Shaping Santiago: Neoliberalism and infrastructure development during the Chilean dictatorship. The case of metro S.A.- Guayaquil: Management model and implementation of the market city.- Urban transformation under neoliberal policy: The hypermodern monterrey.- Part 5: Promotion of the city project Anchored in the recovery of history.- Puerto Madero and the material, symbolic, relational and territorial production of a mega-project.- The heritage city: Aesthetics, politics, and crisis in Quito's historic center.- Tourism and architectural heritage consumption: The case of the city centre of Bologna, Italy.- Innovations in the management of natural heritage: A comparative analysis of three supralocal plans in Bologna.- Part 6: The city project in the international sphere.- 22@ innovation district: Remaking the post-Olympic Barcelona model.- Internationalization as a driving force for Barcelona’s city project: An Agonistic and political insight.- New York City: Its reconceptualization and unraveling as an economic project (1970s-2010s).- Part 7: The city project that emerges from anthropic and natural risks.- Historic center of Popayán – Challenges and Tensions post 1983 earthquake.- Part 8: City projects resulting from democratization processes.- Madrid: From dictatorship to democracy. Winning the cultural battle, leading urban history.- Bogotá: A laboratory for national electoral tendencies.- A city of rights: Mexico city.- Part 9: The turn to the left as a city Project.- From capital city to national Government: The failure of the Peruvian left.- Care from above and care from below. Urban inequality and community collectivization of care.- Local Governments and social participation: Pathways and setbacks of the Porto Alegre participatory Budget.- Montevideo and progressivism: Towards a cooperative city?- Part 10: The popular city Project.- Production and social management of habitat and housing in Mexico.- Government in plurinationality and interculturality: The case of the city of Quito.- Part 11: The citizen urbanism Project.- The 15-minute city model: An integrated urban approach and a game changing lifestyle narrative.- A plural and feminist agenda for inclusive urban planning.- The city of the neighborhood, central element of citizen urbanism.- Part 12: The virtual city Project.- The virtual city in the 21st century: Exploring the role of digital platforms in urban evolution.- Urban hybridity: Juxtaposition of physical and virtual spaces.- Digital twin cities: Virtual city, real city.- Part 13: Epilogue.- Epilogue. The city project: 21st century.