Abstract

CRAVINO, María Cristina. Geographic imaginaries and urban inequality in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2021, vol.29, pp.74-74. ISSN 1853-4392.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37838/unicen/est.29-205.

The present article aims to address geographical representations (also called urban imaginaries) of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area´s inhabitants, about their urban region. In order to accomplish this goal, interviews were carried out with neighbors that reside in different types of housing (popular settlements, social dwellings both in height and single-family, low density middle-class neighborhoods, high density buildings and closed urbanizations). These interviews were analyzed and gave as result the predominance of urban imaginaries that naturalize metropolitan inequalities. Furthermore, it was possible to distinguish a system of social hierarchies (or socio-spatial order) between neighborhoods and differentiated geographical representations within neighborhood spaces, within the urban experience of its inhabitants.

Keywords : Urban inequality; Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; City´s social representations; Residential typologies.

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