Buenos Aires: La fragmentación en los intersticios de una sociadad polarizada

Abstract

In Latin America, the term "fragmentation" has been the subject of several significant academic debates. Used in all fields of urban research on Latin-American cities (political, economic, and spatial analysis), its diffusion resulted in its adoption as the foundational principle of a new urban model, the fragmented city. Based on empirical research on Ciudad Evita, we argue that fragmentation is a phenomenon that can also be observed in the interstices of an unequal society in the form of actors' micro-strategies of social distinction and negotiation in the context of social polarization and contradictory and intermittent urban policies. © 2009 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales.