Las huellas de la inequidad: suelo, ciudad y formas urbanas en los “frentes” y “fondos” del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires

Abstract

The Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) was the scene of large urban transformations in the last 25 years, particularly in its fringe areas, related to the waterfronts or along the rivers. This paper asks about implicit and explicit rules that shaped those transformation processes, based on three axes of analysis, which represent the most problematic issues in the construction of the AMBA: access to land, production of city and urban morphology. For this purpose, we analyze two contrasting cases in order to formulate hypotheses, that will expand this analysis to other fringe areas of the region: Rincon del Milberg, in the municipality of Tigre, former wetlands, and recently occupied by gated communities, and Los Hornos, in the municipality of Moreno, an area of diggins and brickyards, where a series of slums were developed in the last decade.