Abstract

SOCOLOFF (COORD.), Ivana et al. Strategies of Public Land Disposition: Commodification and Inflexions of Urban Neoliberalism in Buenos Aires (2015-2018). Territ. [online]. 2020, n.43, pp.200-223.  Epub Apr 01, 2021. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.7286.

This article is part of a comparative study of land concession and privatization projects carried out in the City of Buenos Aires from 2015 to 2018. Our goal is to analyze the land disposal strategies deployed by authorities through the concession and privatization in the City of Buenos Aires, reconstructing the political rationalities that were articulated around them and the institutional devices created to make them viable. Our central argument is that, inscribed in discourses about the 'idleness' of the land, large areas were mobilized through the creation of institutional devices that deepen the budgetary and territorial fragmentation, subtracting from the legislative scope its attributions in the definition of land uses. In doing so, we address the continuities and inflections in Buenos Aires' urban neoliberalism. We adopt a methodological strategy based on the analysis of documents produced by authorities.

Keywords : Land privatization; public land; urban policy; urban neoliberalism.

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