La ciudad crece y lo hace aceleradamente. Y mientras ese crecimiento se produce, nuevas herramientas comienzan a surgir en busca de un nuevo orden, de una nueva regulación en términos de estética, de salubridad y de seguridad urbanas. En esa lógica, emergen criterios particulares de actuación que definen un primer escenario (more…)
Category Archives: In focus
Ganar la calle!
La capital de Argentina tiene aproximadamente 13 millones de habitantes a nivel metropolitano, que realizan unos 24 millones de desplazamientos diarios. La ciudad propiamente dicha tiene 2.8 millones en 200 km2. La relación entre la infraestructura y el entorno natural es tema histórico de preocupación (more…)
Building Social Parks
The area of Abasto in the city of Buenos Aires has historically developed within an open urban fabric in which streets, corners and the square have been civic instruments of social cohesion. However, in recent decades, there have appeared processes that break those patterns of growth through fortified enclaves (more…)
The first scenery of the urban zoning
Through the years, zoning has established itself as one of the most powerful urban planning instruments which, from the point of view of building regulation, has been able to operate over a precisely delimited territory –stemming from the concept of division into zones–, so as to strengthen the intrinsic characteristics (more…)
The effects of a late modernization
This work is centered on the study of the territorial structure of the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in order to examine the dramatic urban changes associated with the transformations in the global economy and, in general, with the “post-modernization” of urban life and society (more…)
Renewal strategies and urban development
Since its foundation, the port of Buenos Aires –showing its back to the central area, on the estuary of the River Plate– has been one of the main links of the national economy for more than four centuries, channelling the exportation of raw materials and the importation of elaborated products (more…)
Urban codes vs. the city planning
Nowadays, the city is going through processes as much conflictive as important. It´s the cosmetic surgery will let it display certain elegant profiles, but its treatment does not contemplate very important problems. The city has already got a notice of city under construction. Since a few months ago it has been undergoing (more…)