Modernization and transformation of the agricultural landscape in the metropolitan area of the city of Cordoba [Argentina]: the case of Colonia Caroya

• Autor(a) principal: Cohen, Diana
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Peralta, Joaquín Emiliano, Romanutti, Alejandro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Labor & Engenho (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/labore/article/view/8634448
• topic: Agricultural landscape; Local development; Cultural heritage.; Paisaje agrícola; Desarrollo local; Patrimonio cultural

In the second half of the nineteenth century, in Argentina begins a process of economic and cultural transformation generically called “modernization", which is accelerated by the Liberal governments of the '80 ́s generation, who took part in the replacement of the colonial lifestyle to the bourgeois model of European roots. In the period 1870-1910, and as a result of the confluence of the policy of encouraging immigration, agricultural settlements, the development of the railway network and the construction of provincial water system, a transformation of the territory around the city of Cordoba is produced, what applies for the physical matrix of our current metropolitan landscape. Many of these physical transformations are still in use. While some lost their economic importance that originated them, and in some cases are nowadays disabled, they provide a valuable legacy as a cultural landscape. In recent years, it has been being promoted its revival as a support for a new strategy for regional and local development. This presentation refers to the case of Colonia Caroya which was built as a consequence of the immigration law and whose urban and rural landscapes are now under the process of conversion and requires interventions that promote local development without compromising its heritage. As regards heritage, in the case of Caroya, we must refer not only to the tangible but also to the intangible, as both constitute an indissoluble unity which gives its particular identity and as such, reinforces the significance of the landscape.