Trends of urban and territorial reconfiguration in metropolitan Buenos Aires.

RODRIGUEZ MARIA CARLA

Urbicide.The death of the city.

Springer

Año: 2023; p. 531 - 554

Abstract The chapter explores the urban and territorial reconfiguration trends of the metropolitan Buenos Aires in pandemic times. It identifies the effects of the symbolic and symbiotic operations inherent to the metabolism of capital in its neoliberal phase considering: the signature urban policies, the treatment of public spaces, and different modalities of the popular habitat. In the face of the urbicide scenario—the death of an exploded and fragmented city in divergent and walled up territories—it presents a transduction exercise, which gives visibility to material and symbolic practices of a self-managed urbanism where the dividing wall becomes a transitional space that connects, combining the horizon and the right to beauty.