Words and things in the Latin American city. Epistemological obstacles in Argentinean urban policies

Abstract

We propose a discussion about the processes of production of knowledge, theories and conceptual frameworks that have operated and will operate in the construction of knowledge about Latin American cities, together with the formulation of urban policies. We focus on the constitution of the dominant categories that influence the reflection and construction of pseudo-needs as urban policies. We approach the revision of the epistemological foundations of this thought, carefully observing their limitations, and propose a return to a set of reflections present in the research that we have been developing since the late 1980s in medium-sized cities in Argentina.