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By the middle of the twentieth century, Villa Gesell (located on the Atlantic coast about 350 km from Buenos Aires) became one of the fastest growing cities in Argentina. Through a rapid process of development fueled by land valuation, real estate speculation and commercial activities related to tourism, a small group of local entrepreneurs was able to secure a preeminent economic position, which in time, and sanctioned by a series of canonic moral repertoires, would convert into a political legitimacy which would allow the group to hold the reins of the city for more than three decades. By the end of the century, however, the moral resources that made this conversion possible would become disputed and challenged. In due time, alternative resources would be assembled within the frame of a new historical narrative, which would enable another process of conversion through which novel actors would seek to build their own legitimacy, disputing their predecessors'. On that basis, the following paper seeks to retrace the origins of this new repertoire, its main contents, and outline some of the ways in which they would be mobilized on the verge of a recent process of moral and political dispute between old and new political actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the socio-political and territorial dynamics in the implementation of new interventions at the local field. In terms of citizen participation and decentralization, various local initiatives are considered in three districts in the metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Moron and San Miguel). It thus seeks to explain the specific territorial and institutional differences into the processes of construction and reproduction of local political order in each case and into the dynamics and outcomes of these public interventions developed in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the patterns of knowledge creation and diffusion in two textile industrial districts located in the Argentinean cities of Mar del Plata and Pergamino. Both of them have an important number of supplier manufacturing firms linked to fashion-oriented clothing subcontractors, which are located inside or outside the geographical boundaries of each city. The methodology research is quantitative and descriptive. The results show that Pergamino has developed over time a stronger knowledge base than Mar del Plata, which could be related to different historical circumstances and evolutionary paths. This has an important effect on firms' architectural knowledge and strategies. Even though in Pergamino there is a permanent flow of external technological know how, which increase its knowledge base and let the firms belonging to the cluster to share it, there is not new fashion-oriented clothing local firms, prevailing a type of industrial district where the dynamism of the economy depends on the hub firms located outside the local context [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]