MONTEVIDEO FROM NODAL METROPOLIS TO RETICULAR CITY?

Metropolitan challenges

Abstract

Since its Spanish colonial genesis as a city-territory, Montevideo is more than a city. Since the middle of the 20th century, this territorial vocation has been confirmed, first establishing a complex metropolitan structure, progressively evolving from a nodal metropolis to an incipient reticular city.

At the beginning of the 21st century, a “cycle change” occurred in the metropolization process, accentuating transversal territorial dynamics and incipient polycentrism, present in a certain way in the preceding model, became more intense.

The presentation develops some of these dynamics, which explain the change in the territorial model and its intensification in recent years.

The recognition of recent territorial transformations such as logistics enclaves, private urbanizations and new housing supply outside the metropolitan center, the growth of housing precariousness and infrastructural development is accompanied by an analysis of academic and institutional production on the subject and the proposals for new metropolitan governance.