(Ebook) Urban Rights and Sustainability in Latin-America: First Steps towards Urban Justice Operationalization by Dr. JAVIER ALONSO GOMEZ DAVILA

(Ebook) Urban Rights and Sustainability in Latin-America: First Steps towards Urban Justice Operationalization by Dr. JAVIER ALONSO GOMEZ DAVILA

The following research is based on the affirmation that urbansustainability in developing regions, such as Latin America, is animpossible goal to be totally achieved, due to the circumstances ofpoverty, informality (slums), corruption, violence, among others thatexist there. Therefore, the urban sustainability in the cities of this regionhas to be reached through survival efforts that seek to balance the existinginequalities (urban justice). So, the first step to take is to detect andmeasure those inequalities, in order to be able to take actions to eradicateor decrease them. To do that, urban rights were chosen to be used asmeasuring tools for those urban injustices. The research presents fivepriority urban rights contextualized to the Latin-American spatiality,called the Latin-American urban rights (right to a living place, right tothe public space, right to alterity, right to mobility and accessibility, andright to good government practices and public policies), that wereobtained after analyzing urban and social characteristics in differentcities such as Santiago, Chile, Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, and Monterrey,México. Finally, a first proposal of operationalization of the LatinAmerican urban rights is presented, which was applied to a case study inthe city of Monterrey, México, in order to prove the efficiency of themodel.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 132-142.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4690