Plan Piloto de Lima (1949): significado histórico

Abstract

The Pilot Plan of Lima (PPL), 1949, is the first comprehensive plan made under the provisions of the Charter of Athens became official and runs in the world. Since Le Corbusier raises his Plan Voisin and publishes the Athens Charter (1942) were many attempts to implement the new way of planning cities. This merit went to the ONPU, institution created by Arch. and Deputy Fernando Belaúnde (1946) who first assignment was the development of the Regulatory Plan of Lima, which the PPL was the first stage and proposing the city model. This plan, directed by Dorich and advised by Sert, Wiener and Rogers, Proposes the limits of growth, articulated by a perimetric road and an inner frame. The city is proposed as kind of Plan Voisin "marinated”, including tabula rasa. Its big omissions were the sea, river and migrants. The PPL is a landmark of international modern planning.