Agroecological Urbanism as an alternative for the construction of a new city paradigm
Agroecological Urbanism as an alternative for the construction of a new city paradigm
Currently, the logic of neoliberal urbanism is strongly present in the way cities are governed, which causes uneven growth and development, evidences and intensifies the polarization of social classes and causes innumerable damage to the environment, reflecting in spaces as injustices of the system . Expensive land has guided and still guides the way in which urban space is occupied, in a process that prioritizes exchange value over use value - according to the concepts of Karl Marx, consolidated in the application for space by Henri Lefebvre (2001) Thus, a series of factors contribute to the affirmation of the ideal of the city in the social imagination, permeated by the modernity and practicality that the system insists on advocating. For the purposes of this research, it is interesting to study Agroecological Urbanism as a subversive alternative for the management and development of cities, contributing to the transition and construction of a new paradigm.
The object of study of the research is subject of observation both of science and of the popular daily life, since the city and the agroecology are apprehended in these two fields. What differentiates them is the form, the method and the instruments of this "knowing". This diversity of the source of knowledge and the way in which they dialogue configure, precisely, the plurality that can be obtained in this journey based on transdisciplinary thinking.