Fragmentación espacial y social: conceptos y realidades

Abstract

From the example of Buenos Aires, the author studies the fragmentation processes that work in big Latin American metropolis. The notion of fragmentation emphasizes the complexity of the socio-spatial dynamics related to metropolization (outbreak, separation, secession) resulting from the aggravation of social inequalities, the rise of poverty and the brutal impoverishment of middle classes. In Buenos Aires these processes result in exacerbated territoriality forms. They are demarcation logics and similar regroupings (private neighborhoods) that jeopardize past forms of urbanization.