Ciudad liberada: aproximación antropológica a la tensión entre lo público y lo privado: Puerto Norte, Rosario

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show an anthropologic research of the urban public-private Puerto Norte Schedule in Rosario city, Argentina. This schedule has caused a strong contrast and segregation in this neighbourhood. On one hand, Puerto Norte redevelopment has brought high skyscrapers with technology and a public space to be used by the dwellers or people related to these properties. On the other hand, in an area that it is not very far away from Puerto Norte there is a traditional working class neighbourhood and a group of shanty areas that coexist with these new private exclusive urban zones that are functional for the financial and estate agency speculations. The paper proposes to reflect and problematize about the privatization process that develops in the space where the urban projet is located.