The settlement territories on the metropolitan fringes of buenos aires, from 1980 to the present day

Abstract

The settlements or land occupations in Greater Buenos Aires have been the subject of studies and debate since the late 1980s. The characteristics of the occupied areas, the locations and who intervenes in the process from different places have been an important part of the questions the specialists have worked on. However, some relationships between these specificities have barely been researched. The goal of this work is to reconstruct the interpretations of the land occupation process in the metropolis from 1980 to the present day, around the players involved and the specificities of the land; for the purposes of understanding the territories in question. For this, different texts and primary sources were used. As a result, it will be seen that, over time, very specific moments were defined with participation, prominence and construction of different players based on the circumstances, and that this is closely related to the concentration or spread of occupations in well-defined areas