Article
Twin cities? Posadas, Argentina and Encarnación, Paraguay from a socio-urban perspective
Estudios Fronterizos
(2018)
Abstract
The objective of this article is to demostrate the mechanisms of complementary relationships maintained by the border cities of Posadas, Argentina and Encar- nación, Paraguay. From a descriptive and diachronic approach the study argues that these cities can be interpreted as twin cities, which share a cultural and historical matrix in the regional context. Both cities apart from their specificities, present similar socio-urban aspects, and in their evolution they were involved in the same processes and problems: border flows, Mercosur policies, construction of the international bridge, Border Neighborhood Traffic Agreements, even a more unusual phenomenon, such as the effect that large infrastructure works have left on their territories. It is concluded that these cities, despite not having a common government, the economic, cultural, neighborhood and complemen- tary relations, generate impacts in a city and vice versa, generating interdepen- dencies, mutual conditioning, and a specific form of inter-urban articulation.
Keywords
- conurbation,
- interchange,
- flow spaces,
- complementarity.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall December 27, 2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.1820020
Citation Information
Brites, W. F. (2018). Twin cities? Posadas, Argentina and Encarnación, Paraguay in socio-urban perspective. Estudios Fronterizos, 19, e020. doi:https://doi. org/10.21670/ref.1820020
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