¿Es posible una segunda urbanización? Condiciones materiales del derecho a la ciudad en los tiempos por venir.

Abstract

Roberto Kozulj's work is proposed nothing less than inquiring in the technical and material foundations, which would be essential (besides the necessary political consensus) to make viable a full employment future. In other words: the formidable technological development that is deployed before our eyes, can it provide material foundations for a realizable utopia? For that, the author begins by weighing the behaviour of the world economy in a period covered by a half century (1950-2014). This periodization is justified by the establishment of the post-war emerging order, with institutions such as Bretton Woods (1944), and also by the existence of relatively homogeneous criteria of global statistical information. Although considering that temporary horizon, it focuses on the prospects of our difficult present: if the brief cycle 2003-2008 seemed to inaugurate a tendency to converge between emerging countries and developed countries, the 2009 crisis shows recessive trends. The core of the thesis is to gain social peace and future sustainability in a second urbanization. In improving the quality of urban infrastructure, based on political agreements, that legitimize that civil (private) society pays for public goods; A second urbanization in which the population excluded achieves being included, through the development of a new type of labor market, labor intensive, with low-rating labor processes. This second urbanization would consist of the transformation of non-sustainable cities in sustainable.