Informelle Urbanisierung, Selbstorganisation und "Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts"

Partizipative Stadtentwicklung in den Barrios von Caracas

Abstract

Although "informal urbanisation" is a main characteristic of many cities in the global south, and extensively discussed by a growing number of publications, many contribution fail to take it's political side into account. With this background the article discusses the changes in the relation between the state and the squatter-settlements in Caracas. Major attention is paid towards innovative instruments that have been introduced by the Bolivarian government to foster the development of a "participative and protagonist democracy" in the slums ofVenezueias capital.