No. 27 (2020): Yearbook of Urban Spaces, History, Culture and Design

The growth of cities and the consequent difficulties and challenges that their inhabitants face every day has led to a wide spectrum of approaches for reflection on a pressing issue: the metropolis. Research on the subject has become, in an obligatory way, interdisciplinary; the conjunction of various angles enables a broad understanding and a more complex analysis of the new cities. Cities have become territories of great spatial, demographic, political, cultural and economic relevance; According to the United Nations Organization, currently fifty-five percent of the people in the world live in cities. His study, however, leads us to focus or particularize the analysis to aspire, perhaps, to an understanding of what happens in these large population agglomerations. In the cities poverty and wealth coexist; violence, insecurity and, also, sophisticated health, education, supply, communication facilities and monumental architectural feats, as well as large infrastructures. It is a priority, therefore, to think of cities from new points of view that favor their spaces, inhabitants and the environment. Cities are living entities, their changes often erupt randomly, becoming uncontrollable challenges.