Habitat and social housing conditions. Urban analysis of gran Resistencia- Chaco, Argentina. Year 2010

Abstract

The city is established as a project of a society which must meet the social and
economic needs of the population, the availability and generation of a set of satisfactions
which guarantee an acceptable living standard. In this context, the term habitat is associated
with the physical and biological environment in which life is developed. The site and housing
are among its components (ONU, 1996), the living standards of the population depend on the
conditions of site and housing. Considering the premises mentioned, this study has the
objective of analyzing the habitat and the living conditions of the population of Gran
Resistencia (GR) considering both the physical and constructed means. In the spatial analysis,
it was able for us to establish the existence of degraded human habitat in the north as well as
in the south areas; these were studied through a mixed epistemological approach. The results were achieved through methodological tools combined in the geographical synthesis using a
technique of cartographic overlaying, which relates social housing indicators obtained
through qualitative treatment to the waterlogging and flooding areas, typical of the
topographic conditions of the land. These areas were identified with the help of the tools
provided by the Geographic Information System (GIS)