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La construcción simbólica de la ciudad

2013

Abstract

In the new building process of the city, the State tends to regulate and sustain the land market, the consolidated central area and the informal settlements; while private capitals organize important territorial fragments and develop the areas where they make their own investments. These changing processes generate new relationships between space, power and identity, which are expressed through symbols and material elements that communicate ideas or values and contribute to shape and order the territory, the population and the investments through a socially legitimated discourse. From this point of view, the development of social housing programs realized during the last decade has put into evidence several types of discourse: discourse of order, produced by the State for places and activities; discourse of power, produced by the established power relationships; and the discourse of differentiation, given by its own urban quality. Thus, from the study of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region, we reflect on those city-building mechanisms that show a certain symbolic order of place differentiation on the territory.