Infrastructure projects and changes in the urban environment: On the advance of the legal city over informal settlements

Authors

  • Walter Fernando Brites Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. CONICET. Arg. Universidad Nacional de Misiones y Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata. Tucumán 1605. Posadas, Arg. Tel- 0054+3764-222680.

Keywords:

informal settlements, urban change, displacement, renewal, revaluation

Abstract

This article discusses the effects of coastal development projects carried out along the banks of the Paraná River in the city of Posadas, Argentina, which include the eradication of the illegal city situated in this large area in order to build the legal city that is open to the river. Using a descriptive approach, the research shows how a set of neighborhoods/settlements located in key interstitial spaces in areas of urban regeneration are subject to real estate speculation and potential displacement processes due to their differential advantages, such as proximity to and connectivity with central areas, landscape resources from the riverfront, high quality public works and increased land value on the riverbanks. Specifically, residing today on the bank of the river is part of the symbolic capital of the upper classes, although a few decades ago the riverbank was inhabited by the poor in slums and informal settlements. 

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Author Biography

Walter Fernando Brites, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. CONICET. Arg. Universidad Nacional de Misiones y Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata. Tucumán 1605. Posadas, Arg. Tel- 0054+3764-222680.

Dr. en Antropología Social y Master en Políticas Sociales. Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Investigador del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. CONICET. Investigador Asociado al grupo de trabajo “Derecho a la Ciudad en América Latina” del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. CLACSO. Profesor en la Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata. Investigador Asistente en el proyecto “Economía, Sociedad y Procesos Hegemónicos en la Provincia de Misiones” (ESOHE) de la Secretaria de Investigación y Postgrado de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. UNaM. Desde 2010 miembro in the Internacional Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences IUAES. Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA).

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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Brites, W. F. (2015). Infrastructure projects and changes in the urban environment: On the advance of the legal city over informal settlements. Urbano, 18(32), 6–15. Retrieved from https://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/1365

Issue

V.18, N.32 (NOVIEMBRE 2015): DEL TERRITORIO AL PAISAJE

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