Diez observaciones sobre la ciudad americana

• Main Author: Juan Luis Piñón
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Valladolid 2006-06-01
• Series: Ciudades
• Subjects: Fragmented city; Complexity; Statistics; Urban poverty; Property titles; Strategic plan
• Online Access: http://www3.uva.es/iuu/REVISTA/Ciudades%2009/Ciudades%2009%20049-082%20PINON.pdf

Juan Luis Piñón tries to outline which are the problems of the American city, starting from a vision of a fragmented, complex and diverse reality. The text is structured in ten points to show the deficiencies of City Planning, as well as the lack of theories for this one, which takes to mask the reality through statistics, trying to justify like normal what it is not, and how the dual planning forgets to integrate that complexity, in favor of the economic interests. For him it is important to indicate which are the causes of poverty, because this is the reason of two different types of shortage, that will be settle in different forms in the territory. He insists on denying two beliefs: that the time will cure everything, and that the property titles would solve the poverty problem. He explains that the Strategic Plans do not have the same result in countries with reliable economies, like the European, than in countries with dependent economies, like in America, with negative effects.