Tensiones enmascaradas del espacio urbano

The aesthetic disposition, organization and representation of contemporary urban space is clearly a social and political product. The implementation of development policies the city of Córdoba-Argentina brought structural urban and social changes. This articles aims to analyse those policies understanding the urban space in its ideological dimension, which means to look at the space as a dynamic process of creation and representation situated on a economical and social macro-structural framework. This article builds on a previous proposal where the authors analysed the urban relocation of considered vulnerable neighbourhoods in the city, taking up now that concern to include in the analysis theoretical elements such as tecno-urbanismo, and to add social integration as a new focus on the analysis. Thus, this article first develops a critical analysis of urban development policies in general and the policy called “My Home My Life” in particular from a reading of the city as an ideology. To do so, it analyses development policies in Latin America and Argentina, looking at how neoliberalism became important in shaping the urban space for the reproduction and expansion of capital. Finally, it proposes three areas of analysis that reveal the tensions between the explicit goals of the policy program and the social content of it: 1 - access to public services and citizenship, 2 - sustainable development, 3 - social integration. To conclude it outlines some conclusions for further analysis.