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The restructuring of the State, with respect to its role in the urban, territorial, social, and economic development, causes two major trends in the political and institutional arena: the Urban Development Process spread and the cities growth involving in their dynamics more neighboring territorial environments; and, in parallel, the ambiguously so-called Globalization. In this way, public entities facing development are sharing more several activities and functions, which had been in their almost sole responsibility, with the private sector, and social and community organizations. According to the foregoing, these different trends suggest that Management should be thought beyond the government sphere to involve the other actors that participate in the development process, thus accommodating the construction of interaction networks, both among the public entities and between these and other market and society organizations in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city and the processes triggered by the city in its territorial environment have changed, according to the historical, moment and the geographical context in which it happened, is happening, or will happen; therefore, the former and the latter are as changing as the elements of that occupied, appropriated, and governed space. There are very few subjects on which there is an agreement among the different academic communities and disciplines that study urban processes, such as town planners, architects, geographers, sociologists, political scientists, engineers, or planners. For example, regarding the definition of the urban matters or what we may understand as a city, a greater agreement may be found on what it is not, as shown with spaces exclusively or mainly dedicated to the productive agricultural/livestock activities. Likewise, regarding what is deemed as public apace, because some people stress the structural and physical aspect as one of the rigid elements that comprise the occupied space, while others rescue, in addition to the physical, the historical, cultural, and symbolic references. The position that considers the physical and material city and public space combined with their immaterial and symbolic aspects has been gaining terrain lately, providing them with a whole new sense. From these convergences arises the scenario that contributes to the building of the citizenship required and demanded by the city. According to the foregoing, the analysis presented here is addressed from three relevant aspects: First, reiterating some of the already treated topics to outline some new perspectives on the city and the public space, as suggested in the title of this article; second, relating historical, conceptual, and applied aspects of the city and such aspects of the city related to the public space, based on the case of Bogotá and finally, formulating some challenges arising form this interaction, based on certain thoughts that seek to link this topic with the Social Sciences and, in particular, with the Political Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article corresponds to the main aspects analyzed in development of the investigation denominated "Adaptation of a Methodology of Evaluation of Socioeconomic Impacts of Natural Disasters for realized Colombia" with the support of Colciencias and the Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina, university that has come intruding in the thematic one with the purpose of incorporating it systematically in the different academic programs that it imparts. Initially the intervention methodologies in front of the disasters were proposed by the World Organization of the Health and for the aid organisms, as the Cruz Roja and the Defensa Civil, since it was to assist you kill. In the measure in that one has come understanding that you kill besides assisting, he/she needs to recover the lost development conditions of affected people and that you kill them they are civic with economic, social and political rights, the topic is expanded to other fields that it puts of present the necessity of more understanding and more integral methodologies that they involve the emergency attention, the later attention of rehabilitation, the reconstruction and the prevention in front of future events that can cause new disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The territory and the city in the last decades have been constituted in matters of outstanding concern for the different disciplines and therefore for the academy in general, however, their analysis has been partially and slanted to the focuses characteristic of the professions. These, the disciplines, although they have made important contributions for their boarding, they allow to see the absence of integral focuses that you/ they allow a better understanding on these matters, complex and dynamic. Presently analysis, the territory is assumed as the context in which the dynamics and the urban processes and the interactions of these are developed with the rural environment, while the city is constituted in the pretext for the understanding of today's modern life and of the future, since the mass is a certain fact in the world, which has been intensified in the developing countries, like it is the Colombian case. For the development of this thematic one, the article outlines four key aspects go approach the study topic: In the first place, the relevancy of the thematic one; the second it explores the historical context on the city and the urbanization process; in the third the main elements of an integral focus are sketched for the analysis of the territory and the city, starting from a triad: The notion of paradigm of Kuhn, the social ecology of Capra and the Equistica, as method that allows to integrate the disciplinary contributions and the traverse ones to this analysis and in fourth place, a preliminary calendar of investigation topics is presented that contributes to energize the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]