The Road Network as a Development-Enabling Structure in Metropolitan Córdoba, Argentina
The road network of an urban region works as a channel of flows (both of people and comodities), driving them to and from certain territories, but also driving this traffic to certain regions to the detriment of others. Therefore, its analysis is essential to understand the current scenario of a met...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rtt/article/view/6344 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=transter&d=6344_oai |
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| Sumario: | The road network of an urban region works as a channel of flows (both of people and comodities), driving them to and from certain territories, but also driving this traffic to certain regions to the detriment of others. Therefore, its analysis is essential to understand the current scenario of a metropolitan region, as for outlining medium-term trends. However, due to metropolitan networks’ length and complexity, its study usually
prioritizes qualitative assessments. Instead, we analyzed here the road network of the metropolitan Córdoba (Argentina); we did so within the instrumental and conceptual framework of Spatial Syntax. The Spatial Syntax approach allows us to quantitatively assess the levels of connectivity and global integration of the elements that integrate the road network, according to their articulation within the road system and its topology. At the same time, we discussed both the potential and the limitations of Spatial Syntax as an analytical tool; in order to overcome the latter, we analyzed the results of Space Syntax analysis in combination with patterns of population distribution, as much as urban facilities and services distribution, determining development trends in terms of urban area restructuration and socioeconomic polarization. |
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