MANAGEMENT OF URBAN GROWTH ON THE METROPOLITAN COASTAL FRONT AND NEW TERRITORIALITIES

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https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18031

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of the management process of urban expansion to the metropolitan coastal front of Buenos Aires, from a case study "Nueva Costa del Plata project", real estate project that affects environmentally fragile lands in two south coastal districts.  For this, it is assumed that it is the existence of contradictory relationships between actors with different capacities to be the main factor constituting the spatial dynamics. Consequently, territorial management is approached from a critical perspective, assuming that it is a complex process of struggle between different projects supported and promoted by different social actors, where the State and the territorial density of the territory assume a leading role. In this context, the objective of the work is to provide elements for the understanding of the conflict around the appropriation and transformation projects of the territory in dispute, as well as the territorialities resulting from this conflictive management process. The methodology used is qualitative, based mainly on the analysis of content on secondary documentary sources and the analysis of semi-structured interviews with key informants. Likewise, a synthesis of the most significant aspects of the case is made from the combination of conceptual categories proposed by different authors in a synthesis matrix.

Keywords: territorial management, urban growth, territorialities, conflict

Author Biographies

  • Gaston Walter Cirio, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Doctor en Geografía por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Realizó estudios e investigaciones
    posdoctorales en Universidad de Huelva y Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, España.
    Investigador asistente de la Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas (CIC) en el Laboratorio de
    Investigaciones del Territorio y el Ambiente (LINTA). Fue Becario doctoral y posdoctoral
    CONICET, en el Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias sociales, UNLP.
    Profesor y licenciado en Geografía por UNLP. Docente de posgrado en Maestría en Ciencias del
    Territorio y en Maestría en Paisaje, Medio Ambiente y Ciudad, ambas en Facultad de
    Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU), UNLP. Docente de Ordenamiento territorioal en UNQ y de
    Metodología y técnicas cas de la Investigación Geográfica en Facultad de Humanidades y
    Ciencias de la Educación, UNLP. Evaluador de diversas revistas científicas nacionales e
    internacionales. Miembro del Groupe De Recherche International “International Network of
    Territorial Intelligence” (GDRI-INTI) coordinado por el Centre National de la Recherche
    Scientifique (CNRS), Francia. Miembro de Red Latinoamericana Territorios Posibles, coordinada
    por grupo TAG, IdiHCS – UNLP Argentina.

  • Cecilia Andrea Munafó, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Quilmes, Argentina.

    Maestranda en Desarrollo Territorial, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Quilmes, Argentina.

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2019-11-08

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Vol. 18 (2019)

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