OPERATIONAL CATEGORIES IN PERI-CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA

Instrumentos de análisis interpretativo

Abstract

This article refers to chapter 3, Urban Interstices, of the Doctoral Thesis, ETSAB.UPC, in the process of completion.

The question being answered is how to interpret the explosive growth of the city, especially in the peri-central area of the city of Córdoba. The objective is to reveal, by analyzing the urban form, an array of possibilities in the unoccupied or consolidated interstices. An insterstice is the result of a type of disorder. It is part of the urban land which was not optimized according to a previously planned intention. These are areas contiguous to others that are neatly ordered, which arises marked inequalities. As Borja points out (BORJA: 2003), the physical expression of the emerging city manifests a contradictory reality: on the one hand, it is fragmented, privatized in the new peripheries, and on the other hand, revalued historical centers and new centralities exist and survive. We analyze the interstices and their environment, with the idea in mind that better knowledge will lead to the possibility of discovering a new complex order and several possible instruments for interpreting morphological changes.

Keywords: peri-central neighborhoods, interstices, operational categories

Thematic block: urban morphologies