BETWEEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND FRAGMENTATION: MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF SANTA FE, ARGENTINA

Abstract

ABSTRACT. This research is a theoretical analysis of how transport infrastructures affect processes and socio- spatial dynamics of the city and territory. The research takes the Santa Fe - Paraná Metropolitan Region in Argentina as study area. Then it focuses on two specific road projects. This paper supports the hypothesis  that the development of infrastructure of metropolitan mobility that is embedded in a process of urban expansion, positively are as connective elements that favor the development of social and economic processes, but simultaneously, if designed under the primacy of functionalist premise can generate as counterpart social-spatial segregation. 

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Keywords: mobility infrastructures, urban fragmentation, metropolitan ar