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Vegetación urbana y Hábitat Popular: el caso de San Miguel deTucumán.

2004; University of Chile; Volume: 19; Issue: 49 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/invi.v19i49.366

0718-8358

Beatríz Garzón, Noemí Brañes, María Laura Abella, Ana Auad,

Latin American Urban Studies

This paper deals with urban vegetation in low income areas and its influence on the improvement of physical and social environment in such communities. The starting point is the view of the city as a man-city-nature interaction where the concerns of different actors and social groups are confronted. The hypothesis is to generate answers to the complex problem of popular habitat by means of an associated management project called “Green Project”. The aim is to achieve , through the transfer of knowledge and products, a green public and private space which will contribute to the improvement of the life quality in the sector. In this sense and within the context of the Active Participation Research, there is an attempt to promote the intervention of the academic and community components , motivating self management, active participation and actors organisation in order to develop habitable places by using vegetation, urban equipment, technological resources and nurturing value, incorporating the concept of productive urban land. The impact of this intervention is the awareness of the importance of vegetation as a multiple potential resource and the need to define: policies on green spaces and trees, participatory planning according to context, inter sector and interdisciplinary work and the possibility to repeat the experience.