Strategic Planning and Urban Disputes. Changes in neighborhood spaces of Córdoba city (Argentina)

AILEN SUYAI PEREYRA; MARIA EUGENIA BOITO

Conferencia; ESA RN37 Urban Sociology Mid-Term Conference 2016. ?Moving Cities. Contested View son Urban Life?; 2016

Strategic Planning and Urban Disputes. Changes in neighborhood spaces of Cordoba city (Argentina).Nowadays cities are spaces for understanding the dynamics that organize hegemonic ways of be in the contemporary scene. As researchers we are interested in Córdoba , as amended by the convergence of public and private policies which rearranged the space class sense. The result is process gentrification, we prefer to call segregation. The investigations we are conducting indicate spatial fragmentation as the central object of the present policies of the Provincial and Municipal State. Summarizing the interclass non-connection in the downtown, the provision of land for high-classes and the application of urban designs based on the "Strategic Embellishment" (Walter Benjamin).The binomial State/Market in Cordoba encourages entrepreneurship and refurbishment of old spaces oriented to the showing displaying a ´native´ image of Cordoba tourist. This work approaches the following areas: Alberdi, San Vicente, Güemes, San Martin, and El Tropezón. We identify public policies, private investors and major social groups disputing in the urban scenario their right to inhabit, circular, work. Methodologically, from a qualitative perspective, we return to Benjamin with an exercise of double vision. Next Optical: materialistic reading on the transformations, emphasizing the social segregation. Optical distance -in terms of temporality-: to identify forms and contents of such transformations in this regulation of living experience.