{"id":17648,"date":"2020-04-24T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naider.com\/naiderlab\/urbanismo-tactico-materializando-el-derecho-a-la-ciudad\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:36:23","slug":"tactical-urban-planning-materializing-the-right-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"naiderlab","link":"https:\/\/naider.com\/en\/naiderlab\/knowledge\/articles\/tactical-urban-planning-materializing-the-right-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical urban planning: materializing the right to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The\nright to the city<\/a> is a basic concept that claims the right to make\nuse of a public space, sufficient and safe for all citizens. A space\nthat is accessible in an inclusive way and can meet the needs of different\npopulation groups, whether they are young people, infants, the elderly, migrants and\nother groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cities have traditionally been designed so that\nAdults of productive age can access all the services in a private vehicle.\nplaces of the city. The streets have been ordered so that these subjects\nof the population move from their residential areas to places\nproduction, obtaining services and consumption spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This planning, increasingly obsolete, has stopped covering\nother needs of this group and above all it has not been able to cover many\ndemands and needs of other groups. This way of planning has been modified\nin recent years and various cities have already begun to rethink the city and\nto make effective that right to the city. Inclusive cities have emerged,\ncities designed by and for women<\/a>,\nthe cities of the\nboys and girls<\/a>, cities\ncities<\/a>, smart cities<\/a>,\nthe creative districts<\/a>,\nthe zero emission cities<\/a>\nAnd a long etcetera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these models of cities use different theories\nt techniques, many of them common to all of them. They are models and terms\ndifferent, that ultimately seek to tackle the same main objective,\nhumanize the city, plan it so that it can house life in all its\nnatural and human diversity. Tactical urbanism<\/strong> is one more tool\nthat seeks in a simple way to contribute to that common goal. This type of\nUrbanism allows urban communities to recover different spaces of their\nenvironment revaluing those spaces in disuse or giving it a new use to\nthe community to those areas of the city originally with another use. This\nway of planning and transforming the city has three\nessential premises<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The interventions will always be of low\ncost<\/li>
  2. The implementation of the measures is agile and\nsimple<\/li>
  3. Changes are aimed at improving the community,\nplacing it in the center of these.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    There are three simple premises that collide head-on with the\nway of carrying out urbanism until now. Urban planning has not been\nconsensual or participatory. There are few examples in which the very\npopulation has decided how to organize their neighborhood or city. Although in the last decade\nParticipatory or consultative processes are becoming more frequent every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Another of the main assets of this type of urban planning is\nthat the magnitude of the interventions is manageable, it is about making concrete changes\nand very localized that do not require much investment and that can be carried out\npartially or totally by the community itself. Projects are usually create\nareas for people to meet and enjoy urban spaces.\nThese range from making a mural, a picnic area or community gardens to\nsimply take chairs and tables out into the streets to play or enjoy the\ncommunity. It is about recovering urban space for such simple activities\nsuch as talks, reading a book, drawing, playing checkers with the neighbor or\nprepare a jamada with the community. Build small towns that generate roots\nto the population within an urban framework that has sometimes suffered\na process of uprooting and has been dehumanized. Projects can be done\nnaturalization of the neighborhood, creating new play areas for boys and girls,\ncreate outdoor cinemas; mobile libraries; What, if you make of these places\ndifferent from the already existing meeting and enjoyment spaces, is that these\nthey are not necessarily linked to commercial activity. They are not squares with\nshops and bars if not spaces that allow leisure and a different way of socializing,\nwithout being directly linked to consumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Latin America, with high rates of urban population and characterized by its way of socializing on the streets typical of the Latin character, is the vanguard in examples of tactical urbanism. These are some of the Types of Interventions in Tactical Urbanism collected by Edgar Pieterse in Latin American Cases<\/em><\/ a><\/p>\n\n\n\n