Universidad y desarrollo urbano en el interior de Uruguay: dos estudios de caso: Maldonado y Salto

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  • Leonardo Altmann Macchio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6181

Abstract

The late development of the Universidad de la República (UDELAR) outside Montevideo, was in line with historic land inequalities in Uruguay. Within the last ten years, UDELAR increased courses at university level as well as university research activities in the Uruguay hinterland, through the creation of Regional University Centers. Meanwhile the Land Use Planning and Sustainable Development Law was approved in 2008. The convergence of unprecedented development of UDELAR outside Montevideo and the new regulatory framework is an opportunity to study the relationship between university location, activities and current urban development. In the case of Uruguayan inland, does University presence imply a significant element at municipal level in order to implement urban planning strategies concerning patterns of land use, mobility, housing for young people, community transport and urban centralities? How to move on from "cities with presence of Higher Education Institutions" to comprehensive "Universitarian cities"?

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