Abstract

SILVA, Ana Cecilia. Patrimonial Neighborhood: Urban Identitary Imaginaries and Production of the Public in a Middle-ranged City of Buenos Aires Province. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2015, vol.51, n.1, pp.53-78. ISSN 0486-6525.

This article is based on an ethnographic fieldwork developed in a middle-ranged city of the southeast Buenos Aires Province, in Argentina. It discusses the ways in which structural components of the urban system -the city understood as a system of service systems and collective consumption- and imaginary urban identities -the city lived and symbolized by its inhabitants- are linked in the production of the public, as a main dimension of urban life. Specifically, we will refer to the case of a neighborhood assembly that impels the declaration of a protected historic area in the barrio La Estación. We will focus on the uses and meanings of the concept of the public that are involved in this process.

Keywords : neighborhood; patrimony; public space.

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