“…On a metropolitan scale, it is seen that the growth of Mendoza in recent decades has followed a clear pattern of urban sprawl, just as many authors have described is occurring in Latin America (De Mattos, 2002;Bahr and Borsdorf, 2005;Lentini, Palero and Montaña, 2010;Cardoso, 2011;D'Inca and Berón, 2013;Mawromatis, 2013;Usach and Freddo, 2015). This situation is similar to that of other average Argentinean cities which have followed a similar urban sprawl model, like Córdoba (Marengo and Lemma, 2017), Comodoro Rivadavia (Usach and Freddo, 2015), Villa Maria-Villa Nueva (Sánchez, Moya, Álvarez et al, 2010) or Santa Fe (Rausch, Martínez, Nardelli et al, 2019). Expressing this sprawled and fragmented growth, clearly marked morphological units have recently emerged in Mendoza which have a limited interrelation and with their immediate surroundings, without having a continuity with the pre-existing city.…”