The Global Solidarity Front to Realize Cities of the Future - 中欧社会论坛 - China Europa Forum

The Global Solidarity Front to Realize Cities of the Future

Date: 2001

Published by International Alliance of Inhabitants

What is really happening in the globalized cities, beyond the numbers and the statistics? What are the social dynamics and the real stories that are occurring in the quarters where the globalization intervenes under the form of real estate investments, urban transformation, functional differentiation and pressure towards human mobility?

The research-action presented by Habitat International Coalition (HIC) in 1998 in Venice with the international seminar Promoting the life of the cities by opening the doors of the world can help us. Here it is in fact the direct protagonist that speaks: the habitants and their associations involved in coping with the encroaching modernity without limits impinging in their own homes. We discover therefore that in the center of Lima inside over 17,000 habitations, considered inhabitable “sheds” will shortly be demolished. The tenants are fighting against the evictions favored by the liberalization of the contracts. It is planned to erect offices and luxurious residences (financed by foreign investors) in the place of these shelters.

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