Urban planning in a hygienist key

Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century

Authors

  • Santiago Pablo Petrocelli CONICET. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo. Universidad de Buenos Aires.. Centro de Investigaciones Hábitat y Municipio.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/ar.v10i17.9172

Keywords:

Buenos Aires, urbanism, urban planning, public policies, hygienism

Abstract

In every urban planning process, a particular system of values, beliefs and actions underlies the ways of thinking and intervening in the city. The situation, which once again places the City of Buenos Aires in the focus of an epidemic, generates an opportunity for discussion and elaboration of new urban paradigms, for which the local experience of hygienist urban planning is a relevant contribution. In this sense, the objective of this work is to draw an overview of the problems and approaches that most permeated urban planning policies in the City of Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; in articulation with its socio-spatial configuration, the role of the State and the professionals of the city in the representation and reconfiguration of urban problems, interests and realities. At that time, hygienism crossed the argentine political imaginary, in which the idea that the order of space would become an order of society permeated, and that in de face of the epidemiological crisis, the liberal State should give way to an intervening State for the sanitation of the city. In agreement, the Municipality of Buenos Aires made multiple interventions, physical and regulatory.

Author Biography

Santiago Pablo Petrocelli, CONICET. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo. Universidad de Buenos Aires.. Centro de Investigaciones Hábitat y Municipio.

Arquitecto UBA, Especialista en Planificación Urbana y Regional UBA, y Doctorando de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Área Urbanismo. Becario Doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), con sede en el Centro de Investigaciones Hábitat y Municipios (CIHaM) de la UBA. Investigador del Programa Territorio y Sociedad del CIHaM. Trabaja temáticas relacionadas con procesos de producción del territorio, políticas de ordenamiento territorial, sistemas urbano-regionales, extractivismo y desarrollo geográfico desigual, bajo enfoques multiescalares, multidimensionales y multi-actorales. Se desempeñó como docente de grado en Planificación Urbana, expositor en foros nacionales e internacionales y autor de trabajos publicados en revistas y libros de Argentina y del exterior.

Published

2020-07-20

How to Cite

Petrocelli, S. P. (2020). Urban planning in a hygienist key: Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century. ARQUISUR Revista, 10(17), 74–87. https://doi.org/10.14409/ar.v10i17.9172