La configuración de la destrucción urbana

Natural disasters and the city embody a tension that debates between a violent nature and the production of the urban space itself once the tragedy occurs where: tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, fires, etc. to name a few of these destructive phenomena, which could haunt our cities, will require reconstruction or repair processes, understood as spaces for future habitation. Then, this tension becomes a phenomenon in constant revision; due to the recurrence of catastrophes, the extension of new dangers and the verification of an important analytical turn, produced in the last decades, in the conception of these disruptive phenomena, previously conceived as external, extra human and occasional events, today the research places them within the general aspects of society, which could have important consequences in the proposed understanding, natural disasters and city. Thus, for the development of this article, we will describe the analytical bases of systematic research on natural disasters, from its most influential works, to then incorporate into the reflection the processes of production of urban reality, already long-standing but which presents an opportunity to produce a critical reflection, which finally seeks to describe its different dimensions, where it will be understood that such destructive phenomena would be placed rather within the processes of social and urban production, thus overcoming the externalization of such dangers to nature.