caryatides

Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture UPV student: Paloma Pallarés Marco

Supervisors: Eva Alvarez, Carlos Gómez y Fran Latorre

September 2020

Download (in Spanish): https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/166468

A neighbourhood intervened by the State due to its critical economic situation and low-quality housing aims to improve the quality of life in the surrounding area. This improvement generally begins by acting in the urban area, which increases the value of the housing stock and leads to speculation, real estate exploitation and the displacement of citizens. “Global poverty flees, not because it is pursued by wealth, but because it has been expelled from an exhausted and transformed countryside” (Jeremy Seabrook, 2004; p. 10) since it is part of the “gentrification” process, an evolutionary dynamic of urban capitalism (Grup Aürt, 2015). This work highlights the problem of gentrification from the point of view of public housing management, investigating alternative processes that have avoided gentrification and then proposing its application in the El Cabanyal neighbourhood.