20 mai 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Laura Snitcofsky Valeria, « Collective Urban Action in the Shantytowns of Buenos Aires, 1958-1983 », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10.4000/books.pupo.19850
From their inception, cities have arisen through geographical and social concentrations of a surplus product. Urbanisation has always been, therefore, a class phenomenon, since surpluses are extracted from somewhere and from somebody, while the control over their disbursement typically lies in a few hands. () David Harvey, 2008 This chapter summarises the results of doctoral research exploring the history of Buenos Aires’ shantytowns between 1958 and 1983, highlighting the memories and ex...