CAPITALIST PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE: CHALLENGES FOR GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN DESIGN/LA PRODUCCION CAPITALISTA DEL ESPACIO URBANO: DESAFIOS PARA LA GEOGRAFIA Y EL DISENO URBANO

Current processes of financialization are based on real estate speculation and the geographical expansion of cities, moving around three factors: capital, land and labor. The city is the epicenter of this expansion, correlating directly with the revaluation of land use and the creation of new values change. Also, geographical space is a social representation is a project in which operate individuals, social groups, institutions and social relations, with their own representations and exists only through the existence and reproduction of society, where the Urban Design seeks stand the social world of being, in all its ability to define what part of your real world. Today, the geographical space as well as Urban Design, are set by the dynamics of the capitalist system, namely, the relations of production. This article was moved around several assumptions: a) the geographical space as a social construction; b) Capitalism produces geographical space according to your needs to overcome its main internal contradiction: overproduction; and c) the capitalist mode of production makes maneuvers to stabilize and reproduce. Elements are then proposed to think about the social commitment of Urban Design, contemporary spatial processes regarding the plusvalue and social and spatial reorganization, and about the claims turn cities into spaces of consumption through financial speculation.Keywords: city--capitalism--geographical space--overproduction-- financialization.Los procesos actuales de financiarizacion inmobiliaria se basan en la especulacion y en la expansion geografica de las ciudades, moviendose alrededor de tres factores: capital, tierra y trabajo. La ciudad es el epicentro de dicha expansion, correlacionandose directamente con la revalorizacion del uso del suelo y la creacion de nuevos valores de cambio. Asi mismo, el espacio geografico es una representacion social y es un proyecto en el que operan individuos, grupos sociales, instituciones y relaciones sociales, con sus propias representaciones y existe solo a traves de la existencia y reproduccion de la sociedad, donde el Diseno Urbano tiene por objeto soportar el mundo del ser social, en toda su capacidad de definir lo que forme parte de su mundo real. a) Hoy por hoy, el espacio geografico, al igual que el Diseno Urbano, se configuran por las dinamicas del sistema capitalista, es decir, por las relaciones de produccion. El presente articulo se desplaza alrededor de varios supuestos: el espacio geografico co