"History of the villas in the city of Buenos Aires. From the origins to the present day" is the book by Valeria Snitcofsky that reconstructs the historical background of the villas in the city of Buenos Aires based on research that began in 2003 and whose advances were expressed in a bachelor's and a doctoral thesis. It is framed within the objective of the Tejido Urbano Foundation, which is focused on promoting research and the generation of knowledge on the problems of habitat and housing.
Edited and published in 2022 by the Tejido Urbano Foundation and edited by Bisman Ediciones, the book examines the main organizations formed between 1958 and 1983 in these spaces, such as the Federación de Villas y Barrios de Emergencia, the Movimiento Villero Peronista, and the Comisión de Demandantes, highlighting the fundamental forms of negotiation and confrontation established with the State. Towards the end, an epilogue presents the main changes and continuities produced between the period addressed and the first two decades of the 21st century.
The book by researcher and PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires, Valeria Snitcofsky, has been awarded the main prize in the "Research" category of the 18th SCA-CPAU Architecture Award and will be presented at the III Congress of the Ibero-American Association of Urban History Madrid, to be held between November 22nd and 25th, 2022, with comments by Charlotte Vorms (Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne) and María José Bolaña (Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay).
