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This paper examines the Self-Managed Housing Program (Law 341), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This programme created 45 cooperative housing units between 2001 and 2020 in consolidated urban areas currently undergoing renewal processes. It investigates the conditions that the programme has generated for the realisation of the ‘right to the city’ in the context of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’ and challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyses the origins of the process and mode of cooperative housing production, including tangible and intangible aspects and capacities acquired by the inhabitants. This study used a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology. The analytical strategy focused on defining a set of dimensions that characterised the self-managed mode of production, conditions of social and urban insertion in the case studied and participants’ perceptions of the influence of material characteristics and organisational arrangements during the pandemic. This paper contributes to our understanding of the socio-economic dynamics in the production of urban space by elucidating the role of the state and specific tensions arising due to bottom-up policies, specific forms adopted by urban experiences of resistance and their contribution in the promotion of concrete conditions of urban life. Finally, this paper characterises an emergent self-managed urbanism and reflects on its possibilities of dialogue with the construction of alternative local policies that challenge growing territorial inequality caused by the subordination of policies to real estate financialisation and its deepening tendencies in the pandemic context.
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This article recovers as an object of analysis one of the constitutive devices of the SELVIHP (Latin American Secretariat of Housing and Popular Habitat): the Latin American School of Habitat Self-Management (ELAH). Specifically, it seeks to analyze ELAH in terms of a strategy promoted by the Secretariat for the meeting and production of knowledge and knowledge, and as a regional integration tactic between popular organizations and resistance built from a self-managed perspective of habitat production. Based on a qualitative approach methodology, we seek to reflect on the characteristics that the School imprints on the mobility of ideas and practices that are articulated between the socio-territorial movements that are members of the SELVIHP on a regional scale, the role that this device plays in the production of situated knowledge-within the SELVIHP strategy and as an articulation of its movements- and, in particular, the strategies used to sustain the space during the context of the COVID19 pandemic in terms of appropriation of the territory of virtuality.
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The constant increase in the number of tourists traveling around the world, has led governments in each country to work permanently and more specifically on tourism, guaranteeing better management in the influx of visitors at places, in order to control the use of natural resources, and attend the needs of inhabitants, as the imminent shortage of vital elements for survival is a subject even more delicate and urgency to deal with. As a part of the projects to eradicate this problem and in the middle of a pandemic several international organizations had provided lots of alternatives that must be taken into count in the development plans for a better public policy. In the points to deal with, we have tourism carrying overcapacity at interest places since derivate the quick increase of population in the world and the increase of travel, the limit of people that must be in the same space has been exceeded and with that the increase of problems at a local level un touristic destinations. Because of the current situation of COVID-19, tourism was one of the most affected. To guarantee the development and resurgence of post-pandemic tourism, it needs to lead to good planning based on the new passengers' and locals' requirements on the subject of biosecurity and trust in each touristic destination, in addition to bet for sustainable tourism.
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The coronavirus pandemic came to highlight all those deficiencies that society lived within Mexico City and the object of this article is to know the history of green urban space and its effects on the health of the citizens specifically with the COVID-19. In recent works, the role that nature has for urban populations well-being is revalued, and at this time a vital strategy to counteract physical distancing, a measure taken by governments to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals framework, the city rights, and the potential to create green spaces in Mexico City as a strategy to help maintain the population well-being in times of the New Normal. What we found in this study is that there is a correlation between the confirmed cases of COVID-19 and green area per habitant in each municipality of Mexico City with a probability of 0.975. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.
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The impact of COVID-19 in the various areas of life, demanded that the guidance service of the university psychopedagogical cabinets be transformed. The intention of continuing to establish relationships to help the educational community in conditions of physical isolation, meant a progressive transition to virtualization. The article presents the experiences in the implementation of the Virtualization Strategy of the counseling service of the Psychopedagogical Cabinet of the University of Cienfuegos. It started from the analysis of the conditions and resources of the cabinet itself, from the application of research instruments to verify the level of preparation of the members and the identification of potential users and their possible needs. Then the spaces that favor the deployment of a virtual guiding practice were created or updated, which function independently but interconnected as an ecosystem. Through these, the guiding actions were carried out in a constant feedback and evaluation of effectiveness. The expression of positive experiences and the increase in followers in the different spaces support the relevance and effectiveness of the strategy developed, which has contributed to extending the scope of the guidance intervention of the Psychopedagogical Cabinet in this complex conditions. © 2022, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.
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Although the diagnostic techniques of medical biotechnology are being applied in Mexico, there is still a significant percentage of people who do not have access to health services, a result of the country's economic inequality. This article aims to present the impact in Mexico of several diseases (COVID-19, acute diarrheal disease, cervical cancer, breast cancer, leishmaniasis, acute kidney injury and neurocysticercosis), the strategies implemented in their diagnosis and control, as well as perspectives of novel diagnostic tests. The article was conducted through a review of online documents from the Mexican government and scientific articles that study the implementation and characteristics of biotechnological tools for disease diagnosis. In the case of COVID-19, the availability of accurate and rapid procedures for its diagnosis has proven to be of vital importance in the control of this disease, as well as in the understanding of infection and immunity processes. In the case of acute diarrheal disease resulting from rotavirus infection, the high morbidity and mortality of diseases cannot be completely controlled until the quality of life of the population is improved. The tools of biotechnology in diagnostics applied through public programs to vulnerable populations provide a way to close the health gap between developed and developing areas. Even so, it must be considered that the amount of resources they use is still high.