Procesos interculturales de apropiación del espacio: dos mercados étnicos en el espacio público de Buenos Aires

Abstract

In the city of Buenos Aires, immigration has proved to be a continuous and widespread phenomenon. It has had different effects in the urban space and in the ways in which local and foreign populations connect to public spaces.For this research the public spacewill be understood as the democratic space where each inhabitant should be able to exercise his identity, with his own desires and imaginary; and at the same time as the organic space that grows and develops together with the needs and aspirations of the community as a whole. Two well-differentiated ethnic market spaces will be studied: the Andean market, in a degraded area of the south of the city, and the Chinatown, a tourist attraction in the North of it. It will be studied how these different collectivities have appropriated the available spaces and how the City has responded from Urban planning decisions.