City, segregation and cemeteries: analysis of the changes in the location historical patterns (Argentine)

Abstract

In the last decade, in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (Argentina) demographic and urban processes have been put in evidence, in different scales, that unavoidably must be associated to changes in the territorial structure. Changes that have affected diverse social and cultural expressions and also religious to recreate and order to the urban space. The appearance of the figure of the gated communities (GC), produce the phenomenon of the private cemeteries (like a complementary and innovating function of the traditional cemeteries). Like in the GC, these, share the same ground use, the same territorial dispersion, the same market, the same handling of marketing and the use of the landscape like a good of market among other similarities, they clearly mark the direct correlation between both phenomena. Parallel, along with the privatization of the city and its public spaces are taken shape other types of urban deterioration as well as the public cemeteries. In appearance, the traditional public cemeteries are in crisis, also the public space. A historical vision of our cities let us identify different practices in the conception and objectives of the cemeteries, simultaneously, a social differentiation. This work will propose reconstruct the logics of location of the cemeteries and their actual transformations, throughout the time, as well as its urban-environmental implications.