Abstract

DALLA TORRE, Julieta  and  GHILARDI, Matías. Urban border areas and social integration: An approach through the public space. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2021, vol.36, n.3, pp.963-999.  Epub Nov 22, 2021. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v36i3.1992.

Cities are currently undergoing intense processes of transformation associated with social segregation and spatial fragmentation. The result is little contact between classes and the weak collective construction of increasingly fragile public spaces. The article investigates a project of intervention in urban space in the City of Mendoza, Argentina. It is considered that it constitutes a frontier space that tends to integrate disused territories and their intervening agents beyond the explicit objectives (related to urban design and infrastructure) presented by the project. The study was carried out on the basis of the analysis of official documents, observations and interviews.

Keywords : cities; public space; public policies; social integration; borders.

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