Feminist urbanism: analysis of three urban projects of popular habitat in Latin America.

Abstract

Feminist urbanism has promoted new forms of intervention in the design and management of the city, both from the public administration and from community initiatives, deploying good practices in different territories. This paper analyzes three cases of popular habitat urban projects in Latin America. It evaluates the roles of the people involved, the defined urban and building typologies and the forms of social organization adopted, verifying the degree of associativity to the theoretical ideas of Feminism and Care within urban planning. An individual signing of each case was carried out through 6 categories: Context, Objective, Actors, Strategy, Impact, and Features of Feminist Urbanism. We worked with a comparative matrix that allows relating them, detecting points in common and highlighting particularities, among others. The cases analyzed were the Intercultural Neighborhood “Comunidad de cambio” in San Martin de los Andes, Argentina; the Neighborhood “Alto Comedero” in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, and the Neighborhood “Maestranza” in Santiago de Chile, Chile. The results obtained confirm the existence of a gender perspective in the planning, management and execution of each urban project, with particular features in each case, and allow us to affirm the effectiveness of the designed methodology. The projects promoted sociourban integration, the breadth of rights for women and diversities, as well as the intersectionality of the approaches that contemplated patrimonial aspects, historical reparations, environmental sustainability; cooperative work as a transformer of the territory, the prioritization of care policies and the questioning of gender roles in the distribution of tasks.