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In recent years, the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza (MAM) is among the Argentine cities that have grown the most in relation to its population increase. Different research works on this topic area agree on pointing out that over the last three decades the Great Mendoza area has shown an extensive and dispersed urban growth pattern which is producing a marked process of spatial fragmentation. This work aims at analyzing the spatial production modalities that explain the expansion of the MAM during the period 1990-2020, trying to reflect on the social processes related to them and the challenges that these changes imply for the study of the new ways of inhabiting the urban space. To this end, the first part presents an analysis of the mutations in the peri-urban landscape of Gran Mendoza, secondly there is a further analysis over the changes in the built environment in its central area. Thirdly, there is a review of the political and social factors that have been relevant for the current dynamism of the city. Finally, the paper presents the questions and analytical dilemmas facing the urban research regarding the approach to the different life fields that unfold through the metropolitan space of Mendoza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper states results from a research project focused on the analysis of school trajectories and access to Secondary School by youngsters from low income sectors of the city of Cordoba. Understanding that analysis and assessment of educational accessibility guidelines during pandemic must take especially into account the views, experiences and meanings of its target population, we analyze a set of interviews conducted at a secondary school during May 2021. Our findings indicate the relevance of school agents and their key role in sustaining their schooling. However, we also address some minor statements that take a critical stance towards the quality of learning processes and strategies implemented, providing significant elements to reflect about educational continuity during pandemic within a fragmented school system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean have become strategic centers of experimentation of city models that allow for the reproduction of capital. This paper reflects on the link between neoliberal urbanism and urban restructuring, focusing on the role the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) plays in the planning of intermediate cities in the region. For this purpose, we take as case studies the programs "Initiative of Emerging and Sustainable Cities" (ICES) and "Development of Metropolitan Areas of the Interior" (DAMI), both implemented in the last decade (2011-2021) in the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza (AMM), Argentina. We analyze the central role played by the UNICIPIO-IDB alliance in metropolitan management, focusing on the axes of citizen security and interventions of urban transformation in central areas. The work carried out shows the key role played by the IDB in progressively determining the urban agenda and implementing neoliberal urban models, through its technical advice and the financing of certain urban programs, under the discourse of sustainability. A qualitative methodological design was carried out, focusing on case analysis. We used secondary sources, including official documents prepared by the IDB, the provincial government, UNICIPIO and the Municipality of Mendoza, as well as journalistic articles and sectorial magazines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William Bulfin published his "Tales of the Pampas" in The Southern Cross until they were translated into Spanish by Alejandro Patrick Clancy in 1997. In his tales, Bulfin regained the "communal nostalgia" speech, which encouraged in the Irish the need to create a strong and closed community that could protect them against external dangers and maintain the existing ties with their homeland. In order to preserve the Irish identity, and with the firm conviction that the mother tongue strengthens the identity ties, the author made use of plain English, and so he exemplified the language used by the Irish immigrants to live and grow in Argentina. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategies used by Bulfin to "translate" the Irish culture into a powerful selective tradition through an ideologically coherent discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper refers to a research paper on de suburban area around the city of Santa Rosa, (La Pampa), both in its placement as in the processes of different nature that contribute to define the city. It is placed in the general context of the capacity to sustain urban policies that aim at the armonic development of the city which can be announced in the development of four basic points: productivity, to capacity to be governed, the capacity of being inhabited, and the capacity of being sustained. The paper develops some conceptual points, previous which provide basic contextual elements, basic for the analysis of the object to be studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though competent analysis and accurate urban planning can provide short-medium term solutions to the infrastructural problems of the majority of urban areas, overpopulation, a lack of essential services and sundry sanitary deficiencies generally imply a low quality of life for the inhabitants of a medium-sized town. These problems are mostly determined by the social and economic level of town dwellers that should ideally be able to have access to vital services and satisfy basic needs such as food, clothing, health, education and recreation. This paper suggests that these variants are in narrow relation with each other and that the ways in which they come together ultimately decide the harmonious growth of a town and the improvement of its inhabitants' welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]