Forma urbana: los emprendimientos residenciales privados y su configuración en el municipio de Córdoba, 2001-2010

Abstract

In the Municipality of Córdoba, the housing market uses five different modalities for the construction of houses which represent the extension of the urban area: special residential developments, rural developments, gated neighborhoods, developments with housing plan, and developments without housing plan. Among the studies of the residential production in Córdoba, a certain gap is detected in urban form and urban-architectural design approaches. The contribution of this article is, therefore, to incorporate the physical-spatial dimension of these large-scale projects, seeking to understand their impact on urban growth. This phenomenon fluctuates between the desire for a compact city and those practices that, in contrast, promote the extended city. This study places itself within the urban morphology’s theoretical discussion of the tensions between urban design as an idea and as a practice.