(barbarosilvano@hotmail.com) and Ibn Daz Parra (idiaz@igg.unam.mx)
Creative destruction
The concept of creative destruction (Sombart and Schumpeter): The
bourgeoisies spirit is economical innovation; it requires destruction of old markets for the creation of new ones. Acceleration of historical time. David Harvey: creative destruction of the city. Marx: destruction of space by time. Creative destruction is a process of destruction of space and acceleration of historical time: destruction of social and political spaces to create a city politically neutralized and adapted to capital accumulation. Displacement and rootlessness. It is a shock doctrine against urban population. The previous implies forgetting about space or to think space through time categories: mobilization, circulation, transformation, change, acceleration. Spatial turn: thinking the world as a city.
Paris XIX
New problems of the XIX century industrial city:
City-revolution: agglomeration, concentration and over-crowding turn
urban areas into spaces of riot and revolution. Redevelopment is used for the destruction of the working class areas and the spread of the city.
City-market: Chaotic and unorganized growth results in economical
inefficiency. City needs to adapt to new productive forces: urban renewal and development of transportation.
City-illness: overcrowding and industry results in epidemic disease and
high mortality rates. Slum clearance policies are developed in city center.
Urbanism as an instrument of power:
Domination through production of rootlessness and displacement.
Urbanism looks for destruction of the possibilities of revolutionary politics.
Adaptation to demands of accumulation of capital. The city as a means
for production, social capital and circuit of non-productive accumulation.
Can we find modern creative destruction
in post-modern urban processes?
Post-modern urbanism?
Attack against functionalist urbanism, zonification
and growth.
Back to the build city: heritage conservation,
multifunctional spaces and city center densification.
Neoliberalization: Urbanism by projects versus
general planning, urban governance versus State bureaucracy, city restructuring versus urban growth.
Italian conservationism (70s) , Barcelona model
(80s) and Latin America intervention on historical city centers (90s-)
Creative destruction in contemporary Mexico City
City restructuring as an instrument of accumulation
Historical city centers upgrade: tourism and middle classes/
commercial and real estate business: historical city center of Mexico City.
Creation of new central areas through redevelopment: Santa
Fe, New Polanco.
Renewal as an instrument of control and domination
Control and disciplining of the historical city center.