URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Author: TORO FERNÁNDEZ BLAS.
Year: 2003.
University: EXTREMADURA [www.unex.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The dissertation focuses its analysis and diagnostic logic, agents and production processes of spontaneous city, to hatch the approach urbanístico.Desde then, making the tracking critical of the proposals ranked cistas hitch and in parallel, the processes of internal reform and interventions rehabilitaduras in the historic center of harvest, declared historic in 1965. Findiza his speech to the establishment of a scenario propositivo of prensios reasoned urban growth until 2015.

Author: EDD BENAIGES M. JOSEP.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Author: AQUINO DE QUEIROZ LÚCIA MARIA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA, DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA..

Summary: This thesis aims to study the governance and competitiveness of tourist cities in the light of the experience of the capital of the state of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Taking this city as a reference, it has sought to understand the importance of governance in the scope of tourism competitiveness of urban centers, in conjunction with local development, focusing the analysis on two issues of extreme importance for the study of contemporary tourism the role of the state in tourism and the search for competitiveness of urban and tourist centers. The management of tourism in Salvador is provided as a mechanism to enhance the comparative advantages of this city, transforming them into competitive advantages, based on a deep understanding of local reality loa, incorporating the territory and local players had been totally or partially excluded the management models that have been in effect. Respecting and understanding the historical process of development of tourism in this town, considering gaps and conflicts in its territory, it was discovered that strengthening their tourism can not do without state action. It is proposed, therefore, the participation of the State fomentador, disciplining and driver of a process in cooperation and coordination with other actors, such as municipalities, the private sector or third sector. This new form of management may contribute to the qualification of Salvador capitalize on existing resources and becoming attractive for receiving new flows of people and capital to strengthen also the levels of competitiveness that has been achieved.

Author: FRACASSO LILIANA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The systematic study and the study of communicative events inherent in a participatory planning process  can provide new insights useful for evaluating the effectiveness of an urban plan and the performance of collective subject planner?  How has understood and studied a process of participatory planning? Based on these questions develops doctoral research presented as a general objective to build and implement a "model" to study the process of planning the Montseny Nature Park in Catalonia, Spain, and the Local Agenda 21 in Cartagena de Indias in Colombia . The two case studies are examples very different from one another. Different are democratic principles that have worked in both contexts, the prospects of action put in place, the knowledge used to the action, also definitions of the type of relationships between actors. The development of the case study structure and develops according to a schedule consisting of the study of the context in which, from bibliographical sources, described and interpreted the scientific and political debate surrounding each case study, or the knot the central issue, which examines the textual output of the planning process, based primarily on firsthand sources, and auto-producidas (interviews), and finally some partial conclusions, in which the arguments are organized, each section, found a relationship between them. In the theoretical framework of the thesis set out three aspects of planning: a) Planning is a process of interaction and learning take on a multiple, as it is based on pluralism. B) In planning coexist different thresholds of rationality relevant knowledge and action (instrumental rationality, communicative and practice) c) The methodological and conceptual tools commonly used in the analysis involved in the planning processes do not develop a satisfactory delas interactions and transactions between the actors. With regard to this last point, and based on the elaboration of the model used, it is argued that. A) It is possible to draw a parallel between the planning process and address: both have a teleological nature, multidimensional and linked with practical action, b) The theory of speech becomes relevant for the study of community planning processes, in terms providing conceptual tools and methodologies that help us organize interactions (dialogues, in the form of text), a better space for expression and experiences of subjects singular and collective involved in the planning process and build a framework of shared significance facilitating joint action, c) Analysis of the speech, tailored to the specificities of the texts produced in a planning process (typology and networking), looks like a very promising approach to understand how power is exercised "subject planner" is manifold, and what reality is constituted by whom, how, why and for what.

Author: Vara Muñoz José Luis.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID [www.uam.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Geografía..
Place of preparation: Dpto. Geografía (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Author: DOMENE GOMEZ ELENA.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA.

Summary: In this thesis examines the process of urbanization in the metropolitan area of Barcelona from the perspective of political ecology. This is an argument made by compendium of publications, consisting of three articles, all published in journals of Social Sciences Citation Index. In the first article illustrates the role of private gardens and water consumption associated in the recent process of changing urban model being experienced by the RMB. The second discusses the explanatory variables of domestic water consumption and given the recent dynamic gets special attention in planning variables, demographic and consumer behavior. Finally, the present status of orchards entertainment in this area in a context of strong competition on the floor with the current model of urban growth. These three cases serve to illustrate how during the process of urbanization will create a wide variety of socionaturalezas that are dependent on things like social class and power relationships. It also shows how various practices of urban sustainability due to the non-inclusion of the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the analysis of certain socio changes.

Author: CHECA ARTASU MARTÍN MANUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA I HISTÒRIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFÍA I HISTÒRIA - UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The argument presented is releasing one of the ways that real estate was along the Franco dictatorship: the construction of the charitable entities that were linked to the church. In particular, examines the case of Barcelona's Board of Housing Eucharistic Congress, established 1952, and over 24 years built more than six thousand homes in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. An initiative that emerged after the conclusion of the XXXV International Eucharistic Congress on 1952, and which was supported enthusiastically by the Bishop Gregorio and participation in their management of the Association of Catholic leaders. Previously, the work has contextualised the proposal estate Barcelona with others that occurred in Catalonia (Tarragona, Gerona or Lleida) at both the parish and diocesan level. It has also tried to vertebrar these initiatives with other construction that occurred in Spain. They had their origin in Cordoba in 1947 with the creation of the Association beneficial construction of the Holy Family that between 1947 and 195 built 4325 housing units in that city. This case is widely studied by the author as well as others, taking as an example, the study of the cases of Malaga, Caceres, Salamanca and Estepona. Just as the proposals of control and centralization of these initiatives instigated by the National Secretariat of Housing created by Catholic Action in 1951 as a result of the various initiatives that arose throughout the national territory. Likewise, the theory has been studied in detail several promotions of Trustees of the dwellings of the Eucharistic Congress, and has an impact on two of the aspects and specific. The first urban development of the site of homes built in Barcelona, designed by the architect Jose Soteras Mauri. And the study of genetic selection system sociological tenants of the housing developed by the sociologist Jaume Nualart Maymí, head of propaganda of the entity between 1953 and 1959. This proposal got a mixed neighborhood in facilitating their integration into the entire city. It is therefore of a research work which portrays an aspect of the unprecedented action of the powers factual during the Franco years, contextualized in Barcelona.

Author: GARCÍA HERNÁNDEZ MATÍAS MIGUEL.
Year: 2006.
University: MURCIA [www.um.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.

Summary: The study of the relationships which create and maintain the development of a city, Almeria, and their immediate surroundings is the main subject of this thesis. Since its formation the city has mentenido a link with their natural environment which has provided guidelines for growth and development in line with the possibilities provided by the environment, but since the decade of 1960-1970 began a remarkable development for the economic boom he has provicado an uncontrolled expansion on areas that have a high risk of flooding, because the city is built on the alluvial fans of the wadi descended from the Sierra Gádor and grows toward the floodplain of the river Andarax, bringing growth more or less sustainable has become a dangerous risk. Máxime if tnemos present weather patterns that are taking place in this sector where the radicalization Mediterranean climate -cambio climate will cause the events extraordinary -inundaciones- are more frequent than usual and more virulent. We are in a densely populated area, with great economic potential, so that land management is highly sensitive and therefore should be monitored abuse speculative and enhancing incidental adjustments on the environment at the expense of intentional adjustments based on growing faith technological society. The thesis shows a detainee and detailed mapping environment where it is and expand the city as well as its historical development, the risks that has provoked their location and possible alternatives to mitigate future risks.

Author: Ferreira de Seixas Joao.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Geografía.
Place of preparation: Departamento de Geografía.

Summary: The main objective of this research focuses on the analysis of the system of governance of the city of Lisbon that emerges in the beginning of this century. They placed four main issues surrounding his state of art, and their capacities for development and renewal, questions that induce a position of critical basic research, as well as an overview of conjugation between what is called for sistema-ciudad and system governorate city. The work seeks to contribute to a better clareza analytical and even prospective front of the challenges that the governor Lisbon holds today. The assumptions underlying indician a major crisis governor of the Portuguese capital, on condition that his urban society has failed to respond yet, making an orientation based processing. Based on a perspective of understanding of the city as a permanent construction Weberian in socioeconomic, cultural and political life, whose systems (including the governor) are structured in life measured by the cultural patterns of conduct and strategic actions of its major players, it develops a structure methodological based precisely in the directions suggested in a series of interviews to echo you, and five case studies very specific. With the transformations in the occupied space and even cultural and cognitive, leading to a real change of paradigm of representation and regulation, European cities are placed in an important crossroads. The changes underway in their rhythms, spaces and landscapes, to pair with structural elements as the crisis in the state and the increasing flexibility of the enhanced value chains, they require new delivery structure and socio-political action, in areas as strategic planning, decentralization political or development projects catalysts and city marketing. Simultaneously, are a matter of heightened competitiveness in its urban policy action, still emerging new prospects for building networks governance and a better understanding of their social capital. In front of this complex landscape, still substantially opaque in his own conceptualization of the current dynamics, this research suggests an opening conceptual and analytical on three fronts: the prospect of a better expression of political attitudes in the city, a capacity building understanding this, the centralization of the concept of governance as a concept systemically and parcel of the different dimensions and values of socio-political action. The diagnosis developed the Lisbon us translates various contemporary (some serious) orders for concern, yet insufficiently answered by their socio-political structures, as well as several occasions little empowered. The reflection on their major challenges, developed by a panel of elongated players intervenientes and reporting their privileged urban system, we suggest the systematization of three major areas for profundamiento a critical analysis of empirical basis, the respective system governor: a city with strategy, a well-managed city-a city as public space governance. The development of five case studies in various sizes and scales allows suportar, or better positioned, the questions surrounding his pictures and dynamic in nature and socio-political. The dimension of the Lisbon strategy shows that, despite the relative pioneer shown at the beginning of the 1990s (when the conduct of its first strategic plan), the city does not stop presently a global project, or even a structure sustaining strategic basis that allows a good rationalization of public action and skill of a more collective. The analysis of the vast dimensions of the administrative structure reveals a city that, despite its scope and consolidates 8 gives repre d06 sentation social culture presents serious weaknesses at institutional, administrative and organizational. Such weaknesses still be mainly a result of a crisis of meaning ethos, cultural and motivational turn-relative autarcía autarkic installed within the municipal structures, in front and above the city ahead of the need for reconfiguration in Politics prospects for action more objective. Finally, the dimensions of governance and socio-cultural capital Lisbon also show significant weaknesses. On the one hand, due to the environments that modulate particularism institutional governance sense relatively restricted and that guide, in important respects, the political agendas in the field of prospects and strategies of its key players. On the other hand, weaknesses at the level of socio-cultural capital of urban society, despite a number of forces, stops still a relatively fragile consistency in their tracks intervention and urban demand. Particularly, the elites of the city kept a relative distance ahead of the urban problems, not percepcionando (and its system of governance) as a clear priority policy objective, professional and civic, is not easily develop a hypothetical political sense of local community, around the qualification of Lisbon. The findings systematised an overview something paradoxical in the Portuguese capital, where significant difficulties in their socio-political statement will mesh with various latent potentialities. An important part of the dynamics of fractals its urban system is certainly a result of fractalidades installed in their system of governance. The main optical (interpretation of performance) focus well in the fields of cultural and the political, as needed reaffirmation engines and training reform projects and strategy for the future of the city. Some courses of action are suggested, in an exercise pós-analítico you are looking systematize potential developments, as well as scenarios tensions and expectations ahead of such possible developments. The new paradigm urban and cultural translates to Lisbon, the need for training of sense planning and conduct policy, the defense of values such as democracy, and the promotion of expressions of urban most noble character such as creativity and inclusion - elements that might try to reposition the city of Lisbon as the center of the challenges and the expectations of society.

Author: GÓMEZ REYES ANA ELVIRA.
Year: 2006.
University: ALICANTE [www.ua.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD PINAR DEL RÍO-UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE.

Summary: We discussed heritage tourism and local vernacular architecture home in rural areas. We applied materials and methods científico-estadísticos. It took stock of the assessment of the domestic vernacular architecture and the link with local communities.