Ciudades americanas, ausencia de modernidad y apogeo de la postplanificación

Abstract

The American City lacks of Planning. This has been consequence of a ultracapitalist dynamic in which the market organizes transformation forms whose mercantile logic makes them work without a Plan. So it is not planned anymore, but it is managed. This change of the Model- plan to the Model- control has had a North American influence. For that reason, the present concepts in North American urbanism, and how they have been developed in Latin America are analyzed.

Keywords

• Urban management
• Welfare State
• "Droit de ville"
• Market without state
• "ghetto inverted"
• "Model-Control"
• "City comfort"
• "Social watching"
• "Urban capitalism"
• "Mega-developers"