Resumo

PERREN, Joaquín; PEREZ, Germán  e  CABEZAS, Sergio. Growth in height in an intermediate city in Argentina: Neuquén towards the beginning of the 21st century. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.3, pp.54-69. ISSN 1851-3123.

This article studies the phenomenona of densification and growth in height in Neuquén (Patagonia, Argentina) during the first decade of the 21st century. The text follows a journey that has four well-defined moments. In the first one, the social division of space in the Neuquén capital is analyzed. In the second, on the other hand, it concentrates on the factors that made it possible to grow in height. The ways in which the new regime of accumulation in Argentina allowed an urbanization of Neuquén capital city will be studied there. In the third section, the anatomy of the building construction process will be explored, with special emphasis on what happened in the central district. Finally, the transformations that the densification generated in the social profile of the studied area will be explored, testing terms such as elitization, homogenization and displacement.

Palavras-chave : Urban studies; Growth in height; Densification; Social division of space.