| Journal: | Investigaciones geográficas - Instituto de Geografía. UNAM |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000402350 |
| ISSN: | 0188-4611 |
| Authors: | Oliveras González, Xavier1 |
| Institutions: | 1El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y Medio Ambiente, Matamoros, Tamaulipas. México |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Season: | Abr |
| Number: | 89 |
| Pages: | 154-167 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | En la frontera México-Estados Unidos se han llevado a cabo varias iniciativas transfronterizas de planificación territorial, mayoritariamente entre las conurbaciones transfronterizas. La planificación transfronteriza se ha abordado desde la perspectiva de la construcción institucional; complementaria a ésta, se analizan los imaginarios espaciales en los que se apoya y, a la vez, reproduce. En la región formada por Matamoros, Tamaulipas y Brownsville, Texas, se ha contabilizado un total de seis iniciativas, en las que simultáneamente se da la desactivación de la frontera y la reproducción de la diferenciación territorial. Ello se refleja en la construcción de una unidad transfronteriza, la segregación de los usos del suelo siguiendo la división fronteriza, en el predominio del desarrollo económico y las infraestructuras de transporte transfronterizas y las relaciones desiguales entre uno y otro lado de la frontera |
| English abstract | Cross-border regional planning is a recent phenomenon, which its first initiatives date back to 1960s. Currently some experiences have been conducted, most of them in Europe. The weak development of this phenomenon lies on the obstacles and limitations that it has to deal with. Those obstacles derive from the asymmetries between the political and administrative systems, urban and spatial policies, land planning and land uses, etc. on each side of an international border. In a great extent, cross-border planning has been theoretically approached from an institutional construction perspective. However, in this research it has been adopted the symbolic regional construction perspective that allows to analyze cross-border regional planning through spatial imaginaries. In this sense, crossborder planning is understood as a result of the interaction between regional actors and the social constructed values and meanings (geographical, cultural, social, economic, historical, etc.) given to border and cross-border regions. This investigation pursues, in first place, to determine the spatial imaginaries on which cross-border planning is constructed and, at the same time, the spatial imaginaries that cross-border planning reproduces; in second place, to determine in which way cross-border planning contributes to deactivate the border (deborder) or, on the contrary, to reproduce and reinforce the spatial differentiation process (the process by which two contiguous national or bordered spaces build spatial discontinuities as a way to distinguish of each other). To achieve these objectives, it has been conducted a content analysis based on the documentation of the spatial and urban planning and of the cross-border initiatives from a case study area; a direct observation of an ongoing cross-border initiative; and interviews to key informants (planning agencies and other organizations related to cross-border |
| Disciplines: | Geografía |
| Keyword: | Geografía económica y regional, Fronteras, Planificación territorial, Imaginario espacial, Estados Unidos de América, México |
| Keyword: | Geography, Economic and regional geography, Borders, Territorial planning, Spatial imaginary, United States of America, Mexico |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
