The Urban Condition

The struggles for legitimacy in spaces, the recognition of time, the right to work and respect for differences are turning reflections on the city upside down today, where, although urban expansion and growth are important, so are the ways in which citizens are appropriating and understanding the city, the narratives, the testimonies of those who carry the city, enjoy it, enjoy it, and claim their right to it, The ways in which citizens are appropriating and understanding the city, the narratives, the testimonies of those who bear the city, enjoy it, enjoy it, and claim their right to it, are also important, and it is these issues that make urban studies more enriching scenarios with new horizons for rethinking the urban. Social warming in public spaces is a factor that adds to the reproduction of negative patterns and the accelerated weakening of the habitability of certain spaces in cities, the so-called "unsafe" or those that people in their daily lives have labeled as "hot" or "pailas" as a result of permanent practices of drug dealing, consumption, street dwellers among others, one of the multiple reasons why social warming manifests itself is the systematic neglect of spaces for people.

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Sebastian Saenz Rodriguez (El Animal Urbano) Sociologist, Master in Social Sciences, coordinator of the observatory of citizenship and city "Marcapasos Urbano", research professor at Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO, in the line of urban studies and development of citizenship and city.