El surgimiento de la megaurbanización Nordelta en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires: consideraciones en torno a las nociones de ciudad-fragmento y comunidad purificada

This article focuses on one of the most generalized, polemic processes recorded in major contemporary cities: the development of residential complexes with security that serve as permanent housing for the middle and upper classes of the population. More specifically, the author attempts to use an et...

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Main Author: Girola, María Florencia
Format: Online
Language:Spanish
Editor: El Colegio de México A.C. 2007
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Online Access:https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/1283
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Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos

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Summary:This article focuses on one of the most generalized, polemic processes recorded in major contemporary cities: the development of residential complexes with security that serve as permanent housing for the middle and upper classes of the population. More specifically, the author attempts to use an ethnographic perspective to question the views on these complexes placed within the category of urban fragmentation on the basis of the analysis of a specific example; the emergence of major developments in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires; in this case, an unusual private, peripheral city.