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Vidal de Koppmann, Sonia
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Temporal Coverage
2008-2015
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spa
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496 p.
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7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
2008-2015
Abstract
The development of the City of Buenos Aires followed from the beginning, a pattern of uneven geographical expansion "North -to- South". However, since the seventies there have been evident processes which, promoted by or accompanied from urban policies, could show changes: productive disarticulation, real estate valuation, extension of Buenos Aires center and commercialization of local historical and cultural heritage.
In this sense, this research focuses on the policies of Creative Districts (CD) that since 2008 the Government of the City of Buenos Aires has deployed in the area and, as stated throughout the study, represents a deepening of those identified transformations. From the official account these policies aim at promoting economic and urban development in the south, although they indeed contribute to sustained urban renewal.
This research was aimed at problematizing on the impact of these trends on the socio-territorial division of the city, posing the following question: How do the CD´s policies, including in the context of urban renewal in the south of Buenos Aires, influence in the production forms of spatial inequality? Is it possible to identify changes in traditional patterns of segregation in the city? Some additional questions are also derived: What do Creative Districts consist of and how much do they promote urban renewal in the areas where they have been implemented? How are they articulated with preceding urban renewal interventions? What socio-territorial impacts are generated in the polygons of intervention and how do they impact on the socio-spatial structure of the city? What new dynamics of production of inequality have they introduced and how are they articulated with the existing dynamics?
The hypothesis of this study suggests that the identified changes would encourage changes in patterns of socio-spatial differentiation of the City, for the development of fragmented enclaves of modernity and wealth in the south of Buenos Aires. CD policies would be operating as a spur of the tendencies of micro-segregation in the area, exacerbating and intensifying their consequences. The CDs show early socio-territorial changes caused by the advance of new dynamics of capitalist accumulation over the city.
From the conceptual theoretical focus, it proposes an approach to the notion of segregation that allows the joint and simultaneous consideration of ecological and social dimensions it encompasses. To do this, there were compiled works on Latin American cities (Schteingart and Torres, 1973; Torres, 1978 and 1993; Borsdorf, 1983; Duncan and Mertins, 1983) that invoke questions of Urban Ecology. On the other hand, the contributions of the radical geography were resumed, in particular the theory of Geographic Development Uneven (Smith, 1984 and 1996; Harvey, 1982 and 2006), to understand the production of socio-territorial inequalities as inherent to the capitalist accumulations. This warrants the definition of the object of study according a multi-scale complexity, in consideration with the multiple levels of relationships (local, national, global) (Theodore, Peck and Brenner, 2009; Brenner, 2003 and 2013). Moreover, CD policies were interpreted within the general framework of neoliberal restructuring, which assumes specific characteristics in local reality (Pradilla Cobos, 2013, Carlos, 2014, De Mattos, 2015).
Consequently, the definition of the object of research required the deployment of strategies of qualitative and quantitative approach. The investigation led to an initial account of macroeconomic prospects, reviewing socio-statistical data framing, multivariate analysis and GIS. Progress was made in this regard by identifying contributions and limitations that were complemented by qualitative approach to the case study of the Technology District: tours, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with key informants.
Among the findings it reached, it is noted that the policy of Creative Districts involves promoting constructability as a basic strategy for urban development in the south of Buenos Aires. In the case study of the Technology District relative success was found in this regard because of the changes on the built environment. The key to this invigoration in the housing market lies mainly in the reformulation of the public - private partnership (verified in the new role assumed by the local government as a facilitator of private investment, and the development of new instruments of urban planning).
Another finding brings to understand how these processes unfold in the space, identifying new logic of commodification and privatization of urban goods and their tendency to be located where the territory has better conditions, contributing to reproduce and intensify pre-existing socio-territorial inequalities.
Among the socio-territorial consequences, trends of fragmentation and micro-segregation (that alter the pattern of city segregation in the north-south key) are perceived. Considering all these enunciated processes, both neoliberal restructuring in the global order, and the renewal policies in south Buenos Aires, or the recent Creative Districts; they all call into question the validity of the CABA´s traditional socio-spatial structure.
In this sense, this research focuses on the policies of Creative Districts (CD) that since 2008 the Government of the City of Buenos Aires has deployed in the area and, as stated throughout the study, represents a deepening of those identified transformations. From the official account these policies aim at promoting economic and urban development in the south, although they indeed contribute to sustained urban renewal.
This research was aimed at problematizing on the impact of these trends on the socio-territorial division of the city, posing the following question: How do the CD´s policies, including in the context of urban renewal in the south of Buenos Aires, influence in the production forms of spatial inequality? Is it possible to identify changes in traditional patterns of segregation in the city? Some additional questions are also derived: What do Creative Districts consist of and how much do they promote urban renewal in the areas where they have been implemented? How are they articulated with preceding urban renewal interventions? What socio-territorial impacts are generated in the polygons of intervention and how do they impact on the socio-spatial structure of the city? What new dynamics of production of inequality have they introduced and how are they articulated with the existing dynamics?
The hypothesis of this study suggests that the identified changes would encourage changes in patterns of socio-spatial differentiation of the City, for the development of fragmented enclaves of modernity and wealth in the south of Buenos Aires. CD policies would be operating as a spur of the tendencies of micro-segregation in the area, exacerbating and intensifying their consequences. The CDs show early socio-territorial changes caused by the advance of new dynamics of capitalist accumulation over the city.
From the conceptual theoretical focus, it proposes an approach to the notion of segregation that allows the joint and simultaneous consideration of ecological and social dimensions it encompasses. To do this, there were compiled works on Latin American cities (Schteingart and Torres, 1973; Torres, 1978 and 1993; Borsdorf, 1983; Duncan and Mertins, 1983) that invoke questions of Urban Ecology. On the other hand, the contributions of the radical geography were resumed, in particular the theory of Geographic Development Uneven (Smith, 1984 and 1996; Harvey, 1982 and 2006), to understand the production of socio-territorial inequalities as inherent to the capitalist accumulations. This warrants the definition of the object of study according a multi-scale complexity, in consideration with the multiple levels of relationships (local, national, global) (Theodore, Peck and Brenner, 2009; Brenner, 2003 and 2013). Moreover, CD policies were interpreted within the general framework of neoliberal restructuring, which assumes specific characteristics in local reality (Pradilla Cobos, 2013, Carlos, 2014, De Mattos, 2015).
Consequently, the definition of the object of research required the deployment of strategies of qualitative and quantitative approach. The investigation led to an initial account of macroeconomic prospects, reviewing socio-statistical data framing, multivariate analysis and GIS. Progress was made in this regard by identifying contributions and limitations that were complemented by qualitative approach to the case study of the Technology District: tours, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with key informants.
Among the findings it reached, it is noted that the policy of Creative Districts involves promoting constructability as a basic strategy for urban development in the south of Buenos Aires. In the case study of the Technology District relative success was found in this regard because of the changes on the built environment. The key to this invigoration in the housing market lies mainly in the reformulation of the public - private partnership (verified in the new role assumed by the local government as a facilitator of private investment, and the development of new instruments of urban planning).
Another finding brings to understand how these processes unfold in the space, identifying new logic of commodification and privatization of urban goods and their tendency to be located where the territory has better conditions, contributing to reproduce and intensify pre-existing socio-territorial inequalities.
Among the socio-territorial consequences, trends of fragmentation and micro-segregation (that alter the pattern of city segregation in the north-south key) are perceived. Considering all these enunciated processes, both neoliberal restructuring in the global order, and the renewal policies in south Buenos Aires, or the recent Creative Districts; they all call into question the validity of the CABA´s traditional socio-spatial structure.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales