Working-class Suburbs in Greater Buenos Aires: An Analysis of its Conformation and Recent Sociodemographic Changes (1991-2010) in the Municipality of Quilmes

During the industrialization process of the mid-twentieth century, Greater Buenos Aires ex­panded considerably. One of its characteristics was the suburbanization of the working classes by acceding to urban land through a formal land submarket, called loteos populares, which were land divisions into lots for low-income households. In the late 1970s, opportunities for access to land for these households were restricted due to changes in urban regulations, deindustrialization policies and regressive income distribution. I analyze the conformation of the neighborhoods created as loteos populares in the municipality of Quilmes. I observe their sociodemographic changes that occurred after the economic-structural transformations of the 1990s. The methodology is eminently quantitative through the revision of historical plans of urban land subdivisions and data of national population and housing censuses in Argentina.