Participation and Gender Views as Tools to Analyze the Multiple Urban Dimension. A Methodology for Approaching to the Urban Reality

Abstract

This article promotes a reflection about intervention guidelines in the current city at a time of social, economic and environmental crisis as we are experiencing. It begins from the concept of “Integrated Urban Regeneration”, to understand the urban reality as the articulation of multiple dimensions, where the social vector is an essential component to be put in value. It is about making visible the life of a place to intervene in. A participatory strategy must be established from their neighbors’ practices, who have the better knowledge of their idiosyncrasies. Among these experiences, it has been observed that a lot of the functions that have been developing historically by women in the city are usually hidden in planning. However, this can be decisive in the construction of a new management model that would be able to incorporate a broader view of how this place is lived.