CEUR   20898
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS URBANOS Y REGIONALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The "generic city" in the south of Buenos Aires: The case of Lanús
Autor/es:
DANIEL KOZAK; LORENA VECSLIR
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Congreso; Second ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization; 2012
Institución organizadora:
International Sociological Association
Resumen:
Over at least the last fifteen years, mainstream urban studies of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (MRBA) have focused primarily on the analysis of the pair "squatter settlements - gated communities", and large-scale urban interventions, as opposite poles of recent urban transformations. It appears, however, that attention on the fine grain urban fabric and typical public space has been scarcer. This includes micro transformations, plot by plot, that taken together have managed to change vast areas of this region. From this perspective, our paper aims to shed light on a subject that has been somewhat neglected, by examining the "Generic city". Not in the sense of the "global generic city", but rather as the most characteristic form of urban tissue in the local tradition, which is especially predominant in the south of the first metropolitan ring of the MRBA. Since the first urbanization processes until the most recent urban transformations, this type of urban fabric -characterized by mixed uses and a fairly irregular morphology - has been in constant transformation; with its open public space working as an ordering anchor throughout. With the aim of better understanding existing cases, we will focus on the study of different representative samples of the "generic city" in the south of the MRBA, examining their formation processes and the urban transformation that have experienced over the last two decades.