Apropiación diferencial del espacio urbano residencial: reproducción social y estrategias habitaciones en el Gran Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

The city is a material space and as such implies a process of social work printed in a network of social relations of production and reproduction. This process alternately refers to the logic of accumulation of capital, and to the development of human life in all its dimensions and meanings. The reproduction takes place in the realm of people’s daily life and allows visualization as a form of occupation and/or use of a particular place in a particular space-time coordinate. And, it is this second dimension, which is the focus of this analysis. In this context, this article focuses on the spatial appropriation implied in land and housing access strategies associated with speci c kinds of affective investment and identi cation with the neighborhood environment. Speci cally, the aim was to analyze the strategies of appropriation of urban space that dominated and dominant middle class families of Greater Cordoba put into play. To this end, starting from provisional objectivism which means the construction of social space in Cordoba, different social classes were delimited. The second phase of the research involved a fundamentally qualitative approach; in-depth interviews were used to reconstruct the perceptions that were lived, and individual and family paths.