Abstract

DEL CASTILLO, Alejandra Carolina. URBANIZATION OF POVERTY IN THE GRAN SALTA AGGLOMERATE (NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINA). ITS CURRENT MANIFESTATIONS. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.28, pp.35-58. ISSN 1853-3655.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/crn.28284323.

This paper aims to analyze the urbanization of poverty in the Gran Salta agglomerate and its current manifestations from a historical perspective. The related research questions are as follows: What are the main processes that influenced the urbanization of poverty in the Gran Salta agglomerate? How was this process manifested spatially? What is the magnitude of poverty at the beginning of the 21st century? What are the sociodemographic characteristics of the population living in the highest poverty areas?

The results show that the urbanization of poverty has more than a century of development, but since the 1960s it has acquired a disruptive development. In the city’s periphery, emergency slums settlement and precarious boroughs are multiplying. At the beginning of the 21st century a sustained increase in poverty, with a growth of many informal settlements and a process of accumulation of disadvantages for the affected populations is observed.

Keywords : Urban poverty; urban sprawl; Gran Salta.