Reconfiguration of Territory and Territorial Politics: Dispersion and Low Density in the Areas of Recent Growth in the City of Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires

Abstract

In the context of growing urbanization, changes in territorial configuration manifest dispersed urban expansion processes in coexistence with traditional forms of gradient peripheralization compact city are verified. Under current conditions, are set new territorial structures, both in metropolitan areas and cities of lesser rank. Specific changes characterized by strong demographic and economic dynamics and significant transformations of peri-urban and rural environments are manifested. The study of urban growth in the city of Tandil want to explain the relationships between reconfigurations occurred in areas of recent urban growth and land planning and management. The thesis that guides the inquiry is that the policy favored territorial reconfiguration and low density dispersed territory, in coordination with the dynamics of the housing market and new cultural demands. The land policy had a high capacity to influence new reconfigurations of territory, mainly those associated with extensive, dispersed and low-density growth, because their actions and decisions validate the new models.