No. 26 (2019): Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Historia, Cultura y Diseño

The city is a complex construct that includes the tangible as well as the intangible geography, product of the socioeconomic, political and cultural relations that occur within it, defining its historical evolution, transforming its morphology and its very definition as a space. As such, the study of Urban Space implies the conjunction of several areas of knowledge (with their respective methodologies and tools) that, intertwined, try to define and analyze this time-varying construct. Two crucial aspects in the understanding of the urban are the morphology and habitability of space (in its most inclusive meaning). One, because it analytically describes the production and evolution of the urban form, derived from its built elements, transformations, interrelationships and the social processes that involve them, defining and explaining the urban landscape and its structure; and the other, because it diagnoses and correlates the factors and processes (environmental, political, socioeconomic, etc.) that influence the quality of life within the urban space, to establish concrete actions and policies to anticipate and correct vulnerabilities – present or future. – that hang over the quality of life.