Abstract:
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The evolution of the urban conditions is divided into three
different “acts”. These are land plot (P), housing(H), and urbanization (U). Solà Morales pronounced in 1993 that “the analysis between their evolution [of each one of these three acts] implies to separate and analyze [them]”. Magrinyà
, by the way, in 2005 stated “The different
combinations of these three elements will delimit the distinct forms of urban growing.
The ideal sequence would be to preserve a space in order to put the streets and urban
services network, then the land plotting [...], and finally, the building of the edifications.
The combination of these mechanisms is not always like that.”
In low-income surroundings, plotting, housing and urbanization are and remain
(usually) in their lowest level. Their tough conditions and their common inability to
invest in them or to pay for some services make them generally unable to increase
their conditions to a higher level. This peop
le would generally live in a house built by
themselves with what they have, in a land they don‟t own or even rent to anyone, and
practically without any service (they
give much importance to waste collection,
sewerage and potable
water access).So,
considering this the lowest level and the complete consecution of the acts the highest, we have a range of “levels” between them, which increment is called
upgrading. The main objective of this minor thesis is to understand how the
mechanisms work to make
this upgrading happen, and most importantly, to look for
ways, procedures or policies that make an upgrading in one of the fields to incentivize one (or various) of the others. |