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The paper seeks to identify the demographic trends, especially mobility, of the growth of small towns in a southeastern Mexico region. The urbanization processes observed are characterized by the limited resources available, not only in term of services but also in regards to employment or provision of housing. However, the four urbanization patterns observed in this paper play a bridging role between two chapters in migration stories and between productive rural area and urban employment market. It is in this way, by settlement far from the center, at the edge of small rural towns that families look for a compromise between the declining family farming and rural economies and the difficulty in accessing urban resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two first periods of government of the Propuesta Republicana party in the city of Buenos Aires (2007-2015) entailed a set of ruptures and continuities in the policies adopted for the informal settlements of this district. The purpose of this article is to differentiate some phases within the period analyzed and to characterize them. The emphasis will be in inquiring into the ways the government of the city transformed its approach perspective to the subject and how this was strongly articulated, in consequence, with an increasing interest in having a territorial presence --institutionally as well as with political networks-- in these neighborhoods. Furthermore, the importance of the growing judicialization of urban conflicts in the district will be described. This paper presents some of the partial results of the researches that are being developed by the authors for which a qualitative methodological approach was used. Semi structured interviews were made and complemented with a survey of the existing documentation produced by the different organisms of the city government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains why, two years before the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, urban dwellers living in poverty in Mexico and Cuernavaca continue having the informal land market as the fundamental route of access to the housing in a period in which mortgage credit has had the greatest expansion in history. Informal employment and wages below 2.6 times the minimum wage are identified as causes of their exclusion from market supply, while federal subsidy programs for informal workers have a low impact and do not affect land prices. The crisis of 2009 meant the stagnation of an apparent advance of the formal on the informal urbanization. For the case study, the association between poverty and economic and urban informality is verified, while data from an applied survey provide details about the characteristics of the inhabitants, their satisfaction at becoming homeowners, progressivity in the housing construction, their level of access to micro-financing for housing improvements and personal expenses, and of their residential mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a sociological interpretation about the way that space, collective identity and memory embody in the neighborhood La Fama, south of México City. Diverse ethnographic techniques were applied -as in-depth interviews, participant observation, mental maps, tours in the neighborhood with locals-. As we will see, the collective identity of the locals, has a close relationship with several vital places, which in turn are triggers of the intersubjective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a first approach to a state of the art on public space in Colombia. For this purpose, this article analyze the production of research groups from several universities and institutions, both, public and private. The reviewed studies are organized from the spatial, social, historical and educational perspectives and analyzed from their influence on the urban management. Finally, it is proposed to continue the traking of the development of research on the field in order to fill the gap between research and urban decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]