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Previous works on the expansion of the Latin American cities are mostly based on theoretical and methodological perspectives arising from different socio-spatial contexts. However, a recent call has been made from postcolonial urban studies to open the understanding of the production of space from the Global South. Considering the above, an alternative theoretical-methodological proposal is presented, which could evidence the production of a space not recognized by the predominant categories used in the literature. In theoretical terms, differentiated spaces could be interpreted from the margin, understood as a space located outside a pre-existing totality; thus, allowing the production of new spatial forms. In terms of method, an analogical dialectical reasoning is proposed to identify the similarities and differences between the expansion space and the predominant categories used to interpret it. To achieve this, geographical space is studied from a perspective that integrates its physical and social dimensions. Finally, the methodology is presented taking as cases the city of Santiago, Chile and Morelia, Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable cities are analyzed with the theoricalcritical perspective help named Coloniality of Power, identifying the difficult of implementing sustainable cities because it's an exclusionary and distorting Latin America model reality. We proposed, first, rethink Latin American cities from a vision that doesn't involve the Eurocentric view, including historical-structural heterogeneity. Subsequently, the urbanization processes in Latin America and their products. Finally, dominant sustainability as a model to be copied in Latin America, eliminating its own characteristics and specificities that hinder -or make it incompatible- its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between the last decades of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, cities in Latin America were subject to interventions based on the ideas of the Hygiene Movement, which later developed towards urbanism. This period was characterized by efforts to address unsanitary conditions in relation to aspirations for progress and modernity. This paper intends to demonstrate the efforts of governments and professionals who wanted to transform their vital spaces by implementing and reframing theories, techniques, methods, laws, and administrative areas, inspired primarily by European models. A historical analysis based on the processes achieved by urban planning was undertaken. Urban planning originated from different problem analysis, construction of interpretive and propositional theories, creation of methods and techniques, preparation of laws, and adoption of plans and projects. Primary sources of that time as well as contemporary authors were consulted, and relevant cities were directly visited. This made it possible to present aspects of the history of urbanism in Latin America that need further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current processes of urbanization in Latin America, continuously incorporate large territorial extensions to the urban limits, generating an unequal metropolization and socioenvironmental problems that affect the habitability of its population. The City of Puebla (Mexico), has grown rapidly in recent decades, so this work aims to assess the conditions of habitability that they live the residents of the City of Puebla, using a synthetic index that integrates various indicators. The results showed highly heterogeneous habitability conditions in the Puebla periphery, accentuating in areas to the west and north of the city, neighboring to the state of Tlaxcala. This work will serve as the basis for future research that proposes to address emerging social conflicts in these areas of the City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]