Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning
Titel:
Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning
Auteur:
Thuillier, Guy
Verschenen in:
Housing studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (2005) nr. 2 pagina's 255-271
Jaar:
2005-03
Inhoud:
The massive growth of gated communities was one of the major urban changes during the 1990s in the Buenos Aires suburbs, but urban planners face many problems because of such developments. These upper-class enclaves, using large tracts of land, spring up at the periphery of cities, which are, in developing countries, lower-class residential areas, creating striking urban contrasts. The municipalities of the second suburban ring of Buenos Aires, with high population growth rates and the poorest inhabitants of the whole metropolis, often have limited resources and great difficulties controlling their own urbanisation. Focusing on the example of the municipality of Pilar, 50 km north of Buenos Aires, an epicentre for the gated communities' boom, this paper shows that planning regulations, often obsolete, are poorly applied. If gated communities generate some economic development, it appears that suburban municipalities and the majority of their residents actually take very little advantage of the arrival of closed affluent neighbourhoods in their localities.
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