Abstract

CARNE, Martín. Housing programs, residential strategies and ways of life. The construction of ‘inappropriate’ territories in the city of Santa Fe. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2020, vol.28, pp.53-53. ISSN 1853-4392.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37838/unicen/est.28-053.

Since 2012, the national state and the province of Santa Fe implemented housing construction and land development programs that expanded the urban plot, accentuating typical problems of ‘diffuse cities’: monofunctional residential areas, greater distances of displacements, deficits of collective equipment, among others. Based on semi-structured interviews with heads of household of the Nueva Esperanza Este neighborhood of the city of Santa Fe, the research analyzes the residential strategies of middle-income household, their changes in the ways of life associated with the new location and the territory builded. The results inform that access to the property of the house is more valuable than its location and subordinates the daily practices (familiar, labor, recreational), configuring new and more demanding ways of life. These and the close presence of social groups perceived as ‘threatening’, build an ‘inappropriate’ territory: one partially appropriate, used, controlled.

Keywords : Housing programs; Residential strategies; Ways of life; ‘Inappropriate’ territories.

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