El territorio del saneamiento en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires: técnica, política y capital en la conformación espacial de la ciudad (1871-1941)

Abstract

Ever since the origin of modern urbanism sanitary sewers have been a key factor in the city’s management, and more recently, its survival the motive of more complex infrastructures, which have generated territorial transformations allowing the city’s change of scale. All throughout this process, Sewerage and City saw the constitution of Buenos Aires’s Metropolitan Area as a large metropolis with more than 10 million inhabitants, making at the same time possible the urbanization of the territory beyond the city’s limits. This work will question the sewage system’s evolution along with the city’s development through sanitation schemes compared in context with urbanism plans, the relationships between actors, logics and problem areas present in the construction of the territory; seeking to characterize the role played by the netting of this service in the city’s spatial forming process.