The young in the crossroads

Authors

  • Jesús Soto Velloso

Keywords:

Youth, market, urban ground

Abstract

Urban youth is being forced to incorporate to adult way of life and market culture under today´s conditions that will be analized in this essay. Serious labour and housing problems that are able to lead them (as a fragile social portion) to explotation and/or exclusion. This must be added to the human, morphological, economical and political crisis that our towns and cities are passing by to form a disliked environment for any personal development. The text is completed with a short description of the evolution of humans as housing habitants and with a brief show of some public and private historical policies launched to fight social and youth marginality. Moreover, imagination will be placed to face the housing problems across an alternative proposal.

Published

2007-06-03