TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY METROPOLITAN WATERFRONTS. CASE STUDY: ROSARIO’S METROPOLITAN REGION, ARGENTINA

Abstract

The changes widespread around the world, associated to new accelerated dynamics of economy, market and globalization, cause that port-cities confront, in the last decades, new spatial transformations. Thus, diverse and complex territorial changes around the city-port relationship occur. In this context, we take as a case study the waterfront of Rosario and its region, to discuss both the changes that happen in recent years on the banks of the city -according to its original facilities-, as well as those related to major port-metropolitan infrastructures. This riverfront has great relevance to analyze multiple complex transformation processes occurring in contemporary metropolis.