En los últimos años se ha observado un continuo aumento en la aparición de los llamados condominios populares, urbanizaciones cerradas de bajo precio, con espacios y servicios comunes para sus vecinos, que se constituyen en unidades con personalidad propia dentro de la ciudad. Este boom constructivo se debe a una iniciativa estatal centrada en subvencionar la creación de nuevos fondos hipotecarios para la adquisición de viviendas sociales, destinadas, de forma preferente, a las clases media y baja de la población peruana, lo que, junto al incremento sostenido de los salarios, ha permitido su traslado a áreas más céntricas de la urbe. El fenómeno ha generado estrategias de movilidad social ascendente ligadas al cambio de domicilio. Pero esta movilidad no ha estado libre de la aparición de nuevos conflictos vecinales, como reconoce cerca del 70 % de la población limeña. En el presente trabajo, centrado en la ciudad de Lima, abordamos estos nuevos conflictos, tanto a nivel interpersonal como estructural, además de ofrecer una clasificación preliminar de los mismos. El estudio presta también atención a aquellas políticas sociales que pueden mejorar la situación y calidad de vida de los vecinos, como es la implantación de mediadores sociales en los que se ha centrado el trabajo de campo, ya que por su labor en diversos condominios ofrecen una amplia y crítica visión del tema.

Beyond their direct use, buildings and heritage places are objects and settings which help to guide community actions. Cognitive perception systems interact directly with the built environment through action and generate experiences that will be used for subsequent actions. This requires a reorientation towards phenomenological perspectives that query the conceptual boundary between cognition and action. Five universities from three countries (Portugal, Italy, and Spain) came together in July 2023 through an Erasmus+ BIP (Blended Intense Programme) experience, developed for the La Latina neighbourhood, in the historical centre of Madrid. The intention was to highlight the importance of different disciplines, and interdisciplinary working, for planning an urban future which includes the goals of socio-economic and environmental sustainability, happiness, and the right of residents to maintain longstanding emotional connections with their neighbourhoods. The novelty of this experience compared to existing Master’s and PhD programmes in Europe was the early and intense contact of students with the subject through the development of fieldwork over two weeks. This was led by teachers from different disciplines to provide interdisciplinary perspectives for a training programme which included architecture, urbanism, urban anthropology, geography, history, and archaeology. Through this training, the intended outcomes were twofold: to equip students with the necessary knowledge and criteria to critically address these issues and to raise awareness among local stakeholders about the negative transformations affecting historic centres and their impact on residents’ quality of life.

This interdisciplinary approach has been successfully implemented in the author's several financed ethnographic research experiences in which people's own perceptions, quality of life, and time and spatial scales in their use and enjoyment of urban green areas and citizen participation have been addressed. After reviewing most research European and Latin-American studies in this field, it is also claimed that children's decision rights on implementation and/or modification of recreational areas should also be considered. Results of these investigations have been incorporated in different publications as well as in teaching materials in several post graduate courses and programmes, both in Spain (UNED) and in Latin America (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico; Secondary Education Teacher Training, Ecuador).

La autora analiza la percepción de los espacios verdes en Madrid. A través del ejemplo de la Casa de Campo, muestra cómo el espacio verde tiene una función doble: estética y económica a la vez. En el sur de Europa, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en el norte, donde se busca especialmente la soledad y la contemplación, estos espacios verdes sirven como importantes lugares de encuentro social.