Abstract

SNITCOFSKY, Valeria Laura. Conformation of a disputed space: urban interventions and territorial organization in the origins of the shantytown Villa Bajo Belgrano. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2021, vol.30, pp.86-86. ISSN 1853-4392.  http://dx.doi.org/10.37838/unicen/est.30-300.

Located in the north of the city of Buenos Aires, on lands near the Río de la Plata, the Shantytown called “Villa del Bajo Belgrano” was formed towards the middle of the 20th century as an intensely disputed space, due to the high potential value of the land on which it was located. This singularity made it the object of early eviction attempts, which in turn had a pioneering organization on the part of its inhabitants. Therefore, investigating the constitutive period of the Villa del Bajo Belgrano allows to illuminate, from a specific case, the first links of negotiation and confrontation established between state agents and territorial leaders of an informal neighborhood, between the Great Depression and the middle of the decade of 1960.

Keywords : Urban informality; History; Shantytown of Bajo Belgrano.

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