Neoliberal policies and urban reconfigurations. Victoria, San Fernando, province of Buenos Aires, a city understood from theory

This article aims to explain from a theoretical conceptual approach the particularities that exist in Victoria, San Fernando, Buenos Aires, from its urban production. Through a series of field works, semi-structured interviews and observations, it was possible to perceive that in this locality, there are three logics of city production, market, state and necessity, according to Abramo, P. (2002). The post-development cities of Latin America, a space in which constant tensions are generated that alter the harmonious development of daily life and the interaction of those who inhabit the area. On the other hand, it is also perceived that the inhabitants naturalize that way of life, their spatial disposition, the progressive privatization of public areas and the proliferation of closed housing estates. Here is a quote that we have heard repeatedly in interviews with the neighbors: "No one in Victoria gives a ball to anyone." At the moment of understanding Victoria from the theory, we take into account such concepts as the "heterotopy" of Foucault M. (1967) - understood as the juxtaposition of spaces that would be incompatible -the term "com-fusa city" (Abramo P.) - as an urban structure that interweaves two traditional models (the Mediterranean compact and the Anglo-Saxon diffused), the notion of "privatopia" by I.Rodriguez Chumillas (2005) and E. Mckenzie (1994) as private spatial consolidation, and finally the concepts: informative and dual cities of R Castells (1995) terms that emerge from the process of globalization, which may be useful to think about the reality of Victoria.

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