ABSTRACT
This study examines the concrete practice of the shaping of urban space. It explores the convergence of transformations initiated by worldwide neoliberal processes, which are producing the “megacity,” and the urban landscape, imagined by some authors as being superimposed on the global, informational or postmodern city. The subject of this study is the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, particularly five of its municipalities. Our scope is limited to the period from 1991 to 2001. In order to explain this structuring of urban space, the study is organized around the following questions: How is the articulation between society and space produced? What logic lies behind it? What are the predominant social relations that currently support the structuring of urban space? Regarding the market that drives the structuring of urban space, how is it organized, and who are its primary agents? Finally, what are the contours of the resulting urban space?
