Impronta territorial y gestión urbanística estatal: la Comuna 8 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Abstract

Planning and state urban management policies usually alternate proposals for regional, metropolitan, thematic and sector. These generally operate concurrently both as contradictory, bringing reaching consequences on the local level. This phenomenon, verifiable in various territories and temporary cuts, is applicable to the case of the Commune 8 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (C.A.B.A.) due to their particular socio -demographic characteristics, economic and territorial politics. This presentation will aim to make a comparative analysis between two proposed plans for the same area of territory, in a 10 year time span during which there was a change of political-economic paradigm that necessarily impacted the way urbanism policies were articulated in public administration. In this case, the 2001 Action Plan of the Buenos Aires Sur State Society Corporation (CBASSE), and the 8th Commune Master Plan (2011-currently in process), reflect the fluctuations that the management of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires went through, currently held by an administration with a late-neoliberal bias, while it is in turn the capital of Argentina, a country part of the neo-developmentalist alignment of Latin America. Both plans will be analyzed aiming to identify similarities, differences, achievements and failures that may allow also assessing the feasibility of the second plan, currently under discussion in the City Legislature.