Urban and regional planning in the Argentine : A critical review

Abstract

The paper sets out to make a critical survey of the most recent attempts at urban and regional planning undertaken in the Argentine. In the light of the obvious failures, lacks and mistakes that these projects have demonstrated, the paper ends up by suggesting and alternative overall approach with which it could prove possible to overcome the most glaring deficiencies and so articulate transformational models for groundspace with the present socio-economic reality of the country. The paper holds as basic the idea that regional and urban planning are by definition tied to the economic dogmas of those who attempt to put them into practise and thus to the time of their elaboration. It thus judges planning policy not so much in the light of its explicit objectives within each dogma's terms of reference but rather in the light of what these explicit objectives will represent for such as control the economic and political reality of Argentinian Society.