Los barrios informales del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires: evolución y crecimiento en las últimas décadas

Abstract

For the authors, structural change has altered the relations as between economy, society andspace. Real wage collapse and a new order in things having to do with city planning area factorsthat, amongst others, make access to land diffi cult for the lower classes. In the wake of theredirecting of building endeavour towards the satisfying of the calls on it of the medium to upperincome bracket population and given government incapacity to meet housing demands, a rise inun-formalized building is only to be expected.In the light of the foregoing, the paper attempts to describe the present day reality of the informalneighbourhoods of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area and analyse their evolution and in so doingremedy the offi cial administrative short fall in this respect. That the full dimensions of the questionmight be understood, all available offi cial data is taken into account as is a sifting of these on theauthors´ part so that that fuller inventory necessary for a proper visualizing those areas requiringinitiatives as within the present-day´s housing policy might be drawn up.The paper aims to demonstrate that regional urban growth over the last decade is closely tied inwith that of this un-formalized mode of answering needs and that latter thus merits the attentionof all those charged with taking housing and city planning decisions.

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