Master Plan for the Region of Sierras Chicas, Cordoba, Argentina

Abstract

The Master Plan for Sierras Chicas was an innovative experience in regional planning. It was developed by a Metropolitan Planning Council, Provincial technical entities, governments of the cities included in the area under analysis, universities, professional and social entities, all of them coordinated by the Government of the Province of Cordoba. With an approximate time, span of 15 years, the Plan applies to a specific sector of the Metropolitan Area of Cordoba known as Sierras Chicas. This conurbation is made up of 11 cities and communes that lie on the eastern slope of the hills in the northwest quadrant of the metropolitan area. This corridor has undergone a disorderly and explosive population growth in the past decades as a consequence affecting its outstanding cultural, landscape, and environmental conditions, which are a heritage that should be preserved for future and current visitors and inhabitants. It has regional impact on the integration in a vast geographical space with different city territorial competencies. If planning is focused on the region, a number of aspects can be approached for a harmonic development of cities. It's impossible to analyze and plan efficiently for basins, surplus water, drinking water, sewage, energy, transport, territory ordering, roads, social equipment, and many other variables, if such analysis is made on each city in isolation.