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The bond between Borges and tango is very close. His vision about this music is related to the experiences he lived while tango started to spread and succeed in Argentina. This paper is a literature review of Borges' relationship with tango. The main purpose of this revision is to understand the collaboration between Borges and Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) in 1965. The last section of the paper is preceded by an analysis of Borges' tango mythical vision. The approach to this literature review is shaped by the bibliography that focuses on Borges and tango, as well as the works which study the relationship between Borges and Piazzolla. Borges' idea of tango is attached to the tradition which creates milonga as a rural music style. This music when it arrived in Buenos Aires was enriched with oral tradition and popular culture. This literature review reveals that Borges preferred the mythical vision of tango instead the innovation. The connection between tango and Borges presented here is the basis to reconsider the result of Borges and Piazzolla's collaboration. It also contributes to the study between music and literature by the Argentinian author. Moreover, it is the foundation to elaborate a new approach with respect to tango. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the first half of the twentieth century, Greater Buenos Aires underwent a process of extensive urban land production and expansion. Accompanying the above there was the work of a group of surveyors of suburban land in a scenario of a booming real estate market. This paper introduces the cartographies of Maximo Randrup (1880-1954).Those draw our attention to a growing market of commercial urban cartographies while triggering some questions about which and how urban growth is shown in contrast with official maps. First approaches to the subject account for images which represent a continuum of urbanized territory, incorporating street network patterns from subdivisions and developments which had not yet crystallized in those years, and which could not be corroborated even decades later, from the newer cartographies. What is observed is that some of those developments drawn on paper never really unfolded in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role and the impact of tourism in Argentina´s and thus Latin America´s coastal urban development processes. Hence, groups of cities with different tourism dynamics are identified on the coast of Buenos Aires according to their demographic and economic changes and continuities during the period 2001-2010. The results allow us to understand in a contextualized way the nature and tourist and urban functionality of the different cities on the coast of the province. Thus, six groups of cities have been identified according to the processes of change that tourism has caused in them and the diversity, complexity and dynamism that each type of cluster presents according to its particular characteristics has been evidenced. All this has allowed to visualize the diversity of destinations that exist in the littoral of the province according to its particular urban situation and its recent tourist evolution. Finally, empirical evidence is offered to support the conception that tourism not only has differential effects on urbanization processes, but that, depending on local circumstances, it generates specific dynamics that must be explained based on the knowledge of the economy and the identity of each place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Neighbors' meetings" are events organized by the Buenos Aires City Government (GCBA) during which the mayor talks to local residents in a specific neighborhood. Particular ways of producing 'participation' take place during these events, and "neighbors" are defined as a community of reference that will orientate governmental policies, both through discursive and non-discursive practices. This paper thus analyzes "Neighbors' meetings" in the city of Buenos Aires in order to understand the meanings of 'participation', as fostered by GCBA, and how it works as a "moral regulation" device. In addition, the article seeks to clarify how the political identity of the ruling PRO party permeates it's participatory initiatives. As a consequence, we will also refer to other participatory policies by the GCBA. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a Buenos Aires district [comuna] between March 2016 and July 2017 as well as on interviews with public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts from the proposition to look at the relationships that can be classified as passing between the legal-illegal axis from a perspective of the interests of the actors in society and how they possibly get involved with the interests of actors in street vending regulation agencies in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Assuming that it is about different "legal sensibilities", in Geertz's terms, what is poses is also to look at the police as subjects who are at the two poles of the equation, although with the advantage of the exercise of violence. This situation enables, in many cases - in front of the configurations between interests, trusts and reputations shared - to carry out different ways of earning a living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]