Infrastructural systems as cross-border articulators: Urban-economic approaches for the border intervention between Nicaragua and Costa Rica

Abstract

The accelerated global process of hyperglobalization has affected the dynamics of geopolitical borders, overcoming historical border conflicts through the articulating capacity of infrastructures. The global commercial transport system seeks to optimize and propose new routes to increase cargo capacity, focusing again on Central America, where the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica meets the ideal geographical and territorial conditions to develop a new commercial crossing, because the new Panama Canal cannot meet the growth in demand due to capacity and size. This border recovers a geostrategic interest, projecting itself as the ideal sector to develop a transoceanic connection, as in the 19th century, a situation that led to border conflicts. Today this is manifested as a new opportunity to intervene the territory from the connectivity networks, under a new urban concept, achieving a transnational cohesion from the infrastructural systems.

Keywords: border, connectivity, territory, infrastructural