Economic and extra-economic factors of land rent in the rural-urban interface of Greater Buenos Aires (1994-2014)

Abstract

The article studies the processes that determine the uses of the territory in four parties that make up an area of ??rural-urban interface in the west of Greater Buenos Aires. It is a space of continuity and integration between the countryside and the city, with axis in the national route 7, where activities and uses corresponding to the opposed processes of expanded urbanization, coming from the primate city, and of agriculturization/oleaginization, which extend from the core zone of agriculture, are developed simultaneously. These fronts of expansion of capital oppose modalities of occupation and appropriation of space, configuring a heterogeneous and conflictive space from the transformations in the traditional uses of the territory, as well as the appearance of new activities, whose dynamism is strictly conditioned by its profitability. The objective of the article is to analyze the economic and extra-economic factors that make up the income of the land and its impact on the evolution of prices in dollars per hectare, between 1994 and 2014. In both cases, it was found that the intensification of capital and landscape enhancement are the outstanding factors, reflected in an average increase of 500% in the price of land throughout the area.