A set of intentioned readings over Cordoba's ancient landscape, reveal the occupation logics developed over centuries of territorial construction. These logics result from the combination of cultural ways of domination and exploitation of the space, the technical resources available and the natural landscape conditions imposed. Models of order emerge from such processes, constituting the synthesis of human work accumulated in time and expressing ways of space organization and a specific way of rurality. The keys for future planning reside in these models. The study area is North of Traslasierra, Córdoba, Argentina, a large territory of more than eleven thousand square kilometers, with an estimate of one hundred small villages and settlements, and a population that is just over thirty thousand people. lt's an area of ancient colonial settlements and important economic weight between the seventeenth and nineleenth centuries when it entered a gradual socioeconomic decline. As a result, today it is a regional space in crisis with a significant delay in terms of territorial policies. Its "traserrana" position and the natural settlement of its valleys and mountains have also been an impediment for its development and have helped to set up a territorial invisibility box. The general hypothesis of this research is the presumption that the North ofTraslasierra is an undervaluated region -in terms of its cultural attributes - and unknown as representative of the local history. The area counts with numerous highly explanatory evidences of the regional identity and of Cordoba's native culture, offering some keys for the comprehension of the rural highland territories . Other secondary hypotheses hover around the presumption that both the scale of the Latin-American territory and the omnipresence of nature, "minimize" the traces of human work, discussing the notion of "will to project". However, it emerges the suspicion that in non-agrarian rurality (on the European way) it is also possible to discover spatial models of order appropriate to the scale and the vastness , in a way of organization that can be named "rural constellations". Therefore, the study of the production activities on the area (mules, goods, blankets and minerals) and their spatial expression, could allow the comprehension of the conformation of a way of rurality and also offer clues to rethink the future of the region. lt is also maintained that the scale of the area, the vast distances and the low density of material traces, demand the construction of a regional story to study and visualize this postponed highland space. It is intended to create new readings over this landscape of Córdoba in order to define a body of knowledge about it. In that process, the aim is to value its cultural and landscape resources, as a way to recover the regional history and to construct a narrative of the territory. Finally, new inputs of territorial order with a focus set to the material reality of the local spaces are expected to be generated in order to guide the definition of future projects and intentions at the region. The methodology is divided into two procedures: first, selective and intentioned readings of the territorial processes, applying scales which express the actions of spatial definition and using drawing as the main instrument of reading and recording, in order to get a closer proximity to a tangible reality, secondly, a description and interpretation in the sense that to understand is to interpret, and to interpret is to evidence.

Space is the expression of society, and contemporary society is built around flows; hence the existence of a characteristic spatial form. However, most people still live in places and perceive their space by virtue of them. The coexistence of these two conflicting spatial logics results in a structural schizophrenia that threatens to break the channels of communication in society. The challenge of building bridges between the two entails dealing with processes that involve, in addition to material practices, other dimensions of social space. That is why both that multidimensionality and the procedures that enable the reconstruction of places in the context that it determines have assumed great relevance. With regard to the multidimensionality, the thesis acknowledges the fact that history -which underpins local identities- can be integrated into the physical environment to facilitate its experience simultaneously to that of other strictly spatial facets of what may be called 'interpreted places', where material heritage can play a significant role. With regard to the procedures, it highlights the importance of community processes in the reconstruction both of inclusive narratives and the places that they represent and in which they are represented. However, it is also argued that in the current context, which involves the disintegration of civil society, these processes may not be implemented in the absence of citizen mobilizations that demand the revision of institutional approaches that tend to generate 'altered places'. In Barcelona the gestation of this state of things had a decisive moment in 1986, when the city was nominated as an Olympic venue. That event can be understood as the beginning of a stage in which a quantum leap in the cultural-identitarian claims of the local urban movement took place, both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective: quantitative, as much as it involved a change of scale in relation to the demands that had addressed the importance of heritage in previous stages, from the architectural element or complex to the urban area; qualitative because, on that scale, non-monumental heritage sites -especially the industrial- became appreciated per se rather than as mere releasers or containers of public space. This phenomenon began to manifest through the renewal of the Port Vell, starting from 1988. After the 1993-1997 period, which was marked both by the ebb of the Olympics and the municipal debt, the period that has been characterized by the urbanization of the so-called New Projects has become a prime setting for its development. This is suggested by the rise of citizen mobilizations in opposition to redevelopment plans that has been registered between 1998 and 2006. Among them, the ones that have affected Trinitat Nova neighbourhood, Lesseps Square, and Parc Central del Poblenou area have had a particular social and spatial impact. From a cultural viewpoint, this reality suggests the possibility of preserving 'spaces of hope' in the construction of an alternative globalization, provided that they acquire and consolidate a structural meaning through the combination of multiple local processes. From a political point of view, it reveals the role of participatory planning as a locus of encounter for actors and strategies that otherwise may be irreconcilable. Finally, a material stance highlights the complex impact of the above on the physical environment, in a time when the social emphasis on images and discourses can result either in a lively coherence between the perception, conception and experience of space, or an extraordinary lack of correlation between them. / El espacio es la expresión de la sociedad, y la sociedad contemporánea está construida en torno a flujos. De ambas constataciones se deriva la existencia de una forma espacial característica. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de las personas sigue viviendo en lugares y percibe su espacio en virtud de ellos. La coexistencia de estas dos lógicas espaciales opuestas tiene como consecuencia una 'esquizofrenia estructural' que amenaza con romper los canales de comunicación de la sociedad. El reto de tender puentes entre ambas obliga a hacer frente a procesos que involucran, además de las prácticas materiales, otras dimensiones del espacio social. De ahí que tanto la multidimensionalidad de este último como los procedimientos que posibilitan la reconstrucción de los lugares en el marco que determina hayan cobrado gran relevancia. En relación con el primer aspecto, se pone de relieve que la historia, vertebradora de las identidades locales, puede integrarse en el medio físico para facilitar su experiencia simultánea a la de otras facetas estrictamente espaciales de lo que cabe denominar 'lugares interpretados', en los que el patrimonio material puede asumir un papel significativo. En relación con el segundo aspecto, se hace patente la importancia de los procesos comunitarios en la reconstrucción de narraciones inclusivas, así como de los lugares que representan y que las representan. Pero también que en el contexto actual, caracterizado por la desintegración de la sociedad civil, dichos procesos pueden no implementarse si no es como resultado de movilizaciones ciudadanas en demanda de la revisión de planteamientos impulsados por las instituciones y destinados a generar 'lugares alterados'. En Barcelona la gestación de este estado de cosas tuvo un momento determinante en 1986, con la nominación olímpica de la ciudad. En el periodo que se inició con ella se produjo un salto cuantitativo y cualitativo en las reivindicaciones culturales-identitarias del movimiento vecinal. Cuantitativo porque implicó un cambio de escala en relación con las demandas de componente patrimonial de etapas anteriores: desde la pieza o conjunto arquitectónico al área urbana. Cualitativo porque, a tal escala, el patrimonio no monumental -en especial el industrial- pasó a valorarse per se en vez de como mero liberador o contenedor de espacio público. Tal fenómeno empezó a evidenciarse con el proceso de reordenación del Port Vell, a partir de 1988. Una vez superada la etapa 1993-1997, marcada por el reflujo de los JJOO y la deuda municipal, el periodo caracterizado por el urbanismo de los New Projects ha devenido un escenario privilegiado para su desarrollo. Así lo sugiere el repunte registrado entre 1998 y 2006 en las movilizaciones ciudadanas en oposición a planes de remodelación, entre las cuales han tenido un particular impacto social y espacial las que han afectado al barrio de Trinitat Nova, a la plaza Lesseps y al sector Parc Central del Poblenou. Desde una vertiente fundamentalmente cultural, la realidad analizada apunta a la posibilidad de mantener abiertos 'espacios de esperanza' en la construcción de una globalización alternativa. Desde un punto de vista eminentemente político, revela la condición del planeamiento urbanístico participado de punto de encuentro de actores y estrategias diversas. Desde una perspectiva material, pone de relieve la compleja incidencia de lo anterior sobre el medio físico, en un momento en el que el acento puesto en las imágenes y los discursos puede traducirse tanto en una vivaz coherencia entre la percepción, la concepción y la vivencia del espacio, como en una extraordinaria falta de correspondencia entre las mismas.

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