The global-local articulation or when the private actors build a new city

Abstract

The study will be focused on Pilar's district/area, located in the called third crown of the metropolitan area, approximately to some 50 kilometers of Buenos Aires (CBD). In this area, new urban forms have been superimposed in a traditional urban structure, generating spatial tensions and conflicts, new meanings of the public infrastructure and the private one, of the rural and the urban. Inside of the logic of a sustained evolution of the periphery expansion, it has entered a mutation and a change of the urban paradigm. The trialectics “time-space-society” is manifested in a new landscape, where the prints of the history have not disappeared wholly but they have been intermingled with representative phenomena of a global culture. How have the private agents been managed with the Council? How are not traditional architectural devices integrated in urban areas with historical past? Toward where should the urban policies point to afford the tendencies generated by the “real estate industry”? The selected case is a clear example of the global-local relationship and it outlines the need of new ways of town planning by public and private agents.