Wealth islands in poverty oceans... Or the fragmentation territorial process in Buenos Aires

Abstract

The central subject of the present study is constituted by the increasing process of dispersion and territorial fragmentation attended in several metropolis in general and Buenos Aires particularly, derivated of the progressive disappearance of the traditional and historical "compact city". In such context, it examines the way by variables such as the evacuating of consolidated areas, the decentralization of sectors of the advanced tertiary area, the increasing development of road infrastructure systems -with the consequent increase of mobility intra-urban -, and the increase in the occupation of the ground, all affects appearence of urban pieces like autonomous islands that concentrate activities mainly of consumption. Likewise, it is described one dichotomizing situation: while in an edge of the spaciality accentuates a process of bunkerización with high security and isolation, in the other one, disarticulation is being deepen between public spaces, which are blurred and far from the criterion that historically they consecrated.