METROPOLITAN REGIONS AS TERRITORIES IN CONTROVERSY

Analysis of the urban residential production in the Metropolitan Region of Córdoba, Argentina towards an active territoriality.

Abstract

This work presents results of a doctoral thesis on the metropolitan regions growth by extension, recognizing its impacts and seeking to contribute towards new management forms. Nowadays metropolitan regions are understood as complex territories of great dynamism where the conventional categories of the urban are permanently challenged, to both describe and explain these territories, and to plan, regulate and manage them. For this reason, this paper proposes to conceptualize them as territories in controversy where, in contexts of tension between planetary globalization processes and local development, it is possible to recognize the specificities of each metropolitan region by analyzing the relationships between the actors involved and the transformations materialized in the territory. A concept guides the analysis towards transformations: active territoriality. It understands that the local actors themselves, based on recognizing the resources and limitations, build the overcoming proposals based on negotiations.