No. 30 (2023): Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Historia, Cultura y Diseño

From the anniversary. On this occasion we offer the academic community number 30 of the magazine. The Yearbook of Urban Spaces, History, Culture and Design (AEUHCD) has been the result of three decades of continuous work whose direction has fallen on the members of the Urban Studies Area, who in turn have assumed that responsibility. Throughout these years we can scrutinize the purposes that gave rise to it, the generational changes and the seal that each editorial coordination has left on it. However, the magazine maintains its interdisciplinary spirit; Each of its issues reflects the discussion and updating of problems around the city from different perspectives. From the graph. For 30 years at the AEUHCD we have allocated the spaces on the cover andsome interior sections to display the graphic work of artists with different origins. However, as part of the changes, which we began in 2020, we have decided to more forcefully promote graphic collaborations accompanied by a reflection on the selected work. In the Yearbook, the visual arts have had a space to rethink the city with all its complexity. The use of artistic practices as a research methodology opens new possibilities for understanding urban phenomena from a transdisciplinary perspective. About the number 30 and urban studies. Due to its commemorative nature, this issue includes some works that aim to contribute to a permanent reflection on the issue of urban studies and that provide continuity to other texts that have appeared in the Yearbook: “A review of the main theoretical currents on the urban analysis” by Tamayo (1994); 20 years later “From socio-territorial justice to spatial justice” by Ejea (2013); In number 22, Morales (2015) questions “What are Urban Studies? A definition of the field of study, brief history, some key themes and perspectives.” Added to the above is the interview with Sergio Tamayo published in issue 27 (2020) in which he recounts the motivations for building an academic project with three aspects: Area, Magazine and Postgraduate in Urban Studies. Number 30 is made up of five articles, a methodological note, three reviews, two interviews and a graphic series. Articles. In “Decoupling or degrowth? An analytical framework to address the socioecological transition from urban studies” Jerónimo Aurelio Díaz Marielle addresses social inaction in the face of climate change. Throughout the article, it examines some emerging concepts that serve to understand the problem of the global environmental crisis and climate change in the context of urban studies. It weaves different axes of conceptual analysis linked to social sciences, planning and urban design.In “Urban imaginaries in current metropolitan areas: the case of Texcoco de Mora, located in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico (ZMVM)” Manuel López states that cities and the metropolitan areas that surround them are not homogeneous spaces, consequently , urban imaginaries are not either. In fact, this heterogeneity hints at differences and oppositions towards hegemonic imaginaries. To demonstrate the above, he examines the case of the People's Front in Defense of the Land and its confrontation with the construction of the New International Airport in Mexico City.Jorge Alberto Juárez Flores and Thiany Torres Pelenco in “Uninhabited housing in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Toluca: an approach from urban complexes” address the reasons that lead to this phenomenon. In their work they warn that uninhabitation has one of its causes in the implementation of housing policies that it produces without taking into account the needs of the population to which it will be directed. The action of the State has been diminished and the interests of real estate companies take precedence over the common good. The consequences are diverse on the territory: social and spatial fragmentation. The article concludes with a set of proposals for the State to recover its leading role to promote instruments that regulate housing policies.Érick Serna Luna in his article “From transportation to the plaza. “Urban development in Azcapotzalco and the renovation of CETRAM El Rosario” explains that the construction of equipment is not a guarantee to transform or eradicate some social practices. Through a historical and ethnographic analysis of this area, it shows how the intersection of economic development policies with transportation policies has led to the construction of shopping plazas that replace bus stops, the latter associated with informal commerce, dirt and backwardness. The author highlights that the rhythms of urban development do not always coincide with the social dynamics in space. That is to say, although the space is transformed by the construction of large facilities, the logic of urban practices advances at different rates.Jorge López Ortiz and José Antonio Morales Cruz in their article “Bibliometric analysis of public space and the management of social emergencies” review the state of the art regarding research on the relationship of public space to social emergencies caused by threats. such as natural disasters or health emergencies with a bibliometric methodology. The results of this review showed that there is a lack of specific studies on risk and emergency management for public spaces. The authors raise the need to offer a state of the art regarding public space and social emergencies to identify global trends in academic and scientific production over a period of 15 years regarding these topics. Methodological notes. Berenice Ortiz Barajas and Clara Sugeydy Torres Uicab in “Living from a gender perspective: the street and women, Chetumal, Mexico” examine the perception of urban public safety through the eyes of women. In this case study, various methodological tools are used to examine public space, which allowed the authors to confirm that the use of space is conditioned by gender roles. Reviews. Blanca Rebeca Ramírez Velázquez offers the valuable testimony that accounts for a publication of great notoriety. In “A tribute for a legacy to urban knowledge: Ciudades magazine” the author recounts this publication that between 1989 and 2018 published 120 issues;analyzes the impact and contributions of the journal in the field of urban studies. The magazine was the result of the conjunction of the work of the Politics and City Seminar coordinated in its beginnings by Pablo González Casanova and the National Urban Research Network (RNIU). It also examines the contributions that the magazine offered internationally and the reasons that led to its disappearance.In “Latin American urban history: a discipline in revitalization,” Carlos Bustamante López offers a review of some of the recently published works on urban history. In “30 years of the Yearbook of Urban Spaces, History, Culture and Design” Francisco Javier de la Torre Galindo and María Esther Sánchez Martínez present a quantitative analysis of all the published works from a critical perspective. The exam reflects these changes in the timeline through graphs and also shows some of the challenges that the Yearbook faces. Interview. María Esther Sánchez Martínez and María del Carmen Bernárdez de la Granja offer the interview with Ariel Rodríguez Kuri regarding the 30 years of the Yearbook and the Urban Studies Area. There Rodríguez reviews the founding of these projects and the relevance of urban history.As part of the connection between academia and society, “The socio-environmental crisis in the Alto Atoyac River Basin: meeting with María de Lourdes Hernández Rodríguez” shows an interview conducted on three axes: the description of the Alto Atoyac basin; ecological problems; and the alternative solutions, the authorship is Francisco Javier de la Torre and María Esther Sánchez Martínez. From the work of “ZeCarrillo”. The graphic proposal that we see on the cover and the interiors of this issue was in charge of the Colombian artist and designer Carlos Andrés Carrillo “ZeCarrillo”. His work is divided into seven powerful images; There he expresses the discussion between high culture and popular culture. That is, it exhibits the symbolic distance that exists between the works of art that we can see in large museums and the artistic expressions that are born organically from urban life. It was made with fragments of images found in random walks through streets, facades and street stalls in Colombia. The work that “ZeCarrillo” offers is a dignification of Latin American visual culture, a humorous gesture that distances us from the domestication of the gaze from a Western hegemonic perspective. We find all this in commercial signs, handmade fonts, popular phrases and portraits of passers-by. The artistic proposal presented in these pages is an invitation to the democratization of art with humility; a recognition of the value of the diversity of identities in Latin America; an exercise in visual ethnography to not forget the living art that exists in the streets and refuses to disappear.   María Esther Sánchez MartínezFrancisco Javier de la Torre GalindoDaniel Fajardo MontañoMexico City