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Large urban facilities (GEU) are generally buildings or groups of buildings – public or not – and spaces where activities complementary to habitability are carried out. Therefore, those buildings that, due to their function, use and location, generate an impact on the development of new centralities are called such. Due to their scope and positioning at a strategic level, they can be identified as urban landmarks within a network of symbolic buildings that characterize globalized cities.
The city of Rosario has a great history in urban planning since the 1935 Regulatory Plan by Ángel Guido, Carlos Della Paolera and Adolfo Farengo, continuing with the 1968 Regulatory Plan by Oscar Mongsfeld. With the return of democracy in 1983, successive municipal administrations marked continuity in territorial planning following the main guidelines of the aforementioned plans and formalizing others such as the Master Plan (1991), the Rosario Master Plan (2001) and the Plan Urbano Rosario (PUR) 2007/2017 and its updates, among others.
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In the Regulatory Plan of 1935 you can identify some of the great facilities that will be reflected in the city over time and continue today. Among them, the system of green spaces and the recovery of the coast as a public space, a subway network to complement the railway system and the Civic Center stand out.
In 1967, the Rosario Regulatory Plan was prepared by the municipal technical team of the “Urban Planning, Railway, Road and Port Coordinating Commission”. It also presented building incorporations of equipment such as the location of the airport in the northwest area of the city, a university center, a medium and long distance passenger land transportation center where the location of the buildings called Single Railway Station and Terminal Station was defined. of Buses.
Some of these projects were only reflected in the plans while others were materialized in later stages through different state efforts.
The territorial effects that result from the development of large urban facilities in the city of Rosario are intended to satisfy community needs related to administration, culture, education and research, sports, recreation and health, among other topics.
The provision of equipment is generally determined by the needs not only of a particular neighborhood or sector, but often responds to the needs of the city or region. To do this, the influence of factors such as: the provision of equipment in proportion to the number of population, accessibility in relation to the location of the element and the distribution of the population that accesses it is taken into account; and the sizing of the physical space necessary to develop the activity.
To analyze the territorial impact of each facility, a “case study” was carried out, constituting analysis units made up of various facilities with different functions in the city of Rosario. Of these units, the structural aspects and the quantitative and qualitative impact they generate in the territory were studied, together with the policies and tools that are implemented by municipal management with its own funds and, in some cases, with provincial, national and/or financing. of international organizations, in order to determine the degree of influence of each facility and its territorial balance.
Starting from this premise, the territorial effects that result from the development of GEUs intended to satisfy community needs can then be characterized and analyzed. In relation to administration, the Municipal District Centers (North, Northwest, West, Southwest, South and Center) and the Federal Oral Criminal Court of Rosario No. 1 stand out. In culture we can name the Puerto de la Música (project), the Rosario Fairgrounds (project), the Parque de la Independencia Fairgrounds, the Bicentennial Library (project), the Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), the Museum of Memory and the Sports Museum. In education and research, the Scientific and Technological Park, the Rosario Biotechnology Center, the Río Paraná Aquarium and the Rosario University City (in progress) stand out. In sport, the Rosario High Performance Sports Center, the World Cup Hockey Stadium, the Deliot Sports Center, the Parque del Mercado Sports Center, and in recreation Ciudad Joven Rosario and the Childhood Triptych made up of the Children’s Garden / Island of Inventions / Children’s Farm. In health, the Dr. Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (HECA) and the Southern Regional Hospital (under construction), among others.
Regarding the territorial distribution of the GEU, the Central District concentrates the largest amount, reaching 46.43% of the total, while the Southern District has 21.43%, the Western District 14.29%, the Northern Districts and North West 7.14% each and the South West District only 3.57%.
Both the variety of uses provided by the different facilities and their strategic locations in the different corridors and public spaces, allow a fluid connection with the population, generate wide acceptance by the local public and at the same time make it possible to open the city to the network of globalized cities and urban marketing, with emblematic buildings developed by author architecture.
In reference to the initial investments, execution and start-up times that each project presents, in most cases they are considerably extended during its development.
Starting with the administrative decentralization that began in 1995, the local government used public policy as a tool to bring the state closer to citizens with a strategic perspective that positioned the city in the world through urban marketing. These actions were carried out with the hiring of internationally renowned architects such as Alvaro Siza, César Pelli, Laureano Forero and Mario Corea Aiello, among other professionals. In other cases, calls were made for national and international competitions, generating great visibility. In turn, in 2008 the provincial government hired architect Oscar Niemeyer for the Puerto de la Música project in Rosario, continuing the strategic positioning as cultural capital in Latin America.
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