“You are (not) welcome”: control and regulation of urban space in Buenos Aires City

Authors

  • Juliana Marcús

Keywords:

public policies, control and regulation of urban space, commodification of the city

Abstract

The housing policies and the control of public space under Mauricio Macri‟s term creates an urban order where some uses of the city are configured as more legitimate than others, which demonstrates the existence of power relations rooted in the territory. These policies having an impact on the right to the urban as the spontaneous practice of that physical space and attempt to regulate it. The urban policy aimed at the recovery of the ground respond to a way of doing city driving out “undesirables” towards the urban periphery. What type of city is being produced? For whom? What is the role of the State and private capitals in these processes? How and from what strategies a city is thought, planned and managed?