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Legislaciones urbanas recientes en Corrientes y Resistencia, Argentina.

Abstract

The recent production of urban regulations in two intermediate cities in northeastern Argentina, Corrientes and Resistencia, reaffirms complicities between state agents and the real estate market, ensuring the establishment of neoliberal policies on urban space, enabling transformations in the central areas through land-use modifications, increased building capacity, and therefore exceptional and differential valorisation. We address here the production process of these regulations, studying both their content, marked by ambiguities or indeterminations; and the trajectory that accompanies their approval: instances of sanction and motorization of multiple strategies of different agents and organizations. The cases studied are the local regulation Nº 12.926 in Resistencia city, approved by the local government in December 2018, in which are made a series of amendments to the Code of Environmental Urban Planning; and in Corrientes, we study normative modifications made by the local government to the Code of Urban Planning, focusing on the case of the local legislation N° 6635 called "Coastal Plan" approved in August 2018. The critical approach of these legislations and of the conflicts unleashed enables interpretations on the diffuse borders between legal/illegal, and the need to trace the power relations that make this legitimation possible.