Summary - TST 38
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
María Alejandra SAUS
From the “iron wall” (1927) to the railway ring (2016). Railway and planning criteria for Santa Fe City, Argentina
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[ Abstract ]
The cycles of railway infrastructures use and the urban planning
paradigms define historical units that mark discontinuities
during the 20th and 21st centuries. Each one of these periods
crystallizes phases of material expansion of capital with
specific urban effects due to public transportation policies.
This article tackles the case of Santa Fe City (Argentina) and
studies five urban plans with two concomitant objectives: one
synchronic and the other diachronic. The first one describes the
railway and urban planning criteria gathered by each plan, while
the second one locates them in the evolution of the railway-city
binomial. Using documentary analysis methodology, the work is
divided into two parts. The first one presents the case offering
a panoramic view about the histories of the railway and planning
in Argentina. The second one examines the plans that took place
in Santa Fe taking the railway as a problem and an opportunity.