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SERRANO BESIL, Javier Eduardo. Growth and socio-spatial configuration of oil cities: the cases of Barrancabermeja (Colombia) and Comodoro Rivadavia (Argentina), 1907-1938. Cuadernos de Historia [online]. 2020, n.52, pp.205-232. ISSN 0719-1243.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0719-12432020000100205.

This article aims to analyze the growth and socio-spatial configuration of two oil cities in Latin America, Barrancabermeja (Colombia) and Comodoro Rivadavia (Argentina), between 1907 and 1938. Using comparison as a methodological tool, we seek to analyze the similarities and differences of urban processes that arouse from the establishment of industry in sparsely inhabited territories. We highlight the appearance of two very well differentiated urban centers, on the one hand, the company town, which concentrates the industrial and residential activity of the workers. On the other, a town that acquires complementary commercial functions to those who took a single productive role.

Palabras clave : urban growth; oil Industry; company town; Latin America.

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