Nuevos procesos de expansión metropolitana: Incremento acelerado de suelo urbano en el área metropolitana de rosario (1990-2010)

Abstract

During the last decades of the twentieth century, various global territories have been experiencing new metropolitan dynamics and accelerated processes of transfor-mation. This article interprets the characteristics of Latin American urban expansions, their causes and socio-territorial impacts, using the Metropolitan Area of Rosario (amr), Argentina as a case study. Through a qualitative-quantitative methodology and through a multiscale approach, we analyze the development of urban land from the 1930s to the present, identifying new urbanizations, population dynamics, intervening actors and urban-territorial planning instruments. It is thus identified that the localities that present a greater increase of urban land are those close to the capital city and lacking urban plans, registering logics and problems in relation to those existing in the traditional city.