Recent Metropolitan Transformations and Territorial Projects: The North Coast of Buenos Aires

Abstract

Over the last twenty years a wide range of interventions in the urban waterfronts have been designed and built. Beyond the paradigmatic interventions of Battery Park and the London Docklands, there have been other operations of equal impact in the Southern hemisphere, including Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires or the coast of river Parana in Rosario, just to name a few of them. These projects have been examined by different disciplines, from environmental, architectural, social and political studies. Within this context, this paper aims to develop a territorial reading of the coast of the River de la Plata and River Lujan, in the north coast of Buenos Aires, to analyze the patterns behind its production. It is considered that the projects and coastal transformation and the conflicts that arise around them, can be understood as a laboratory for thinking about the recent metropolitan transformations, and their possible logic of intervention.