El paisaje y la forma de expansión en la ciudad de La Plata: lineamientos y estrategias para la planificación del crecimiento urbano

Abstract

La Plata is a city planned ex novo with a system of green spaces that materialized the hygienist theories of the nineteenth century. Its layout is rationalist, with diagonals and squares every six blocks achieving a balance between the built space and the public space. Over the years the city expanded into productive land evidencing a low urban and landscape quality that in addition to the lack of planning and the lack of green spaces generates a contrast with the situation within the planned urban area. The research aims to verify that the current growth would form a fragmented urban environment, tending to the loss of landscape quality. In the first instance, it is proposed to identify the characteristics of urban expansion by means of an exhaustive survey of the fabric that allows understanding the expansion logics and the shapes that make up the landscape. In a second instance, guidelines and intervention strategies are proposed.