Industry and urban expansión: multiscalar-contextual approach to the metropolization process of Santa Fe, Argentina (2003-2023).

Abstract

Industrial areas and parks have acquired relevance in the Santa Fe metropolitan environment in the last two decades, warning of new trends between industrial location and urban expansion that combine concentration and dispersion. In order to analyze both trends, theoretical-methodological tools are recovered from the vernacular debate that places the case in the north of the Rioplatense mega-region. This context allows to retrace the way in which the transportation infrastructure that articulates this mega-region impacts temporally and spatially on the emergence of these new urban objects and on the spatial forms in which they are inserted. Furthermore, it contributes to the study a multi-scalar perspective that gives relevance to the metropolitan institutional dimension, by warning about the actions of actors at multiple scales and the institutional devices that they make up, enabling a broad regional dimension that breaks with the physical criterion as the only explanatory criterion of metropolization processes.