Inequalities in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region (Argentina): Tensions in Public Policy Guidelines destined to the Informal Settlements

Abstract

International audience ; The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region is defined as a heterogeneous and unequal area. Public actions and strategies, market and social actions, have an impact on the configuration of the Metropolitan Region. The different action logics interact with each other and, thus, configure and compose territorialities that challenge the socio-urban integration and coherence guidelines that public policies intend to promote from different government levels. To explore the guidelines that lead the implementation of those initiatives and their effects on the territory constitute a key factor to understand the production of such inequalities. Those initiatives –in their interaction with the territory– crystallise in different territorialities: on the one hand, the formal, commoditised, and globally integrated city. On the other, the popular city, informal, overcrowded, with important infrastructure deficits, etc. This paper focuses on the forms of integration achieved (or not) by popular urbanisations located in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region. It intends to account for the measure in which public policies and interventions achieve (or not) the integration of those territories to the formal city. ; L'aire métropolitaine de Buenos Aires peut être définie comme un espace hétérogène et inégal. Les actions et stratégies d'initiative publique, privée ou sociale ont une incidence sur la configuration du territoire métropolitain. Les différentes logiques d'action qui configurent et composent les territorialités interagissent entre elles et mettent au défi les orientations d'intégration et de cohésion socio-urbaines que les politiques publiques, à partir des différentes instances du gouvernement, cherchent à promouvoir. Dans ce cadre, entreprendre des recherches sur les orientations qui sous-tendent la mise en place de ces initiatives, et ses effets sur le territoire, constitue un élément clé pour comprendre comment se construisent les inégalités. Les différentes initiatives – en regard de leur ...