Buenos Aires Argentina History - Puerto Madero Neighborhood Redevelopment Guide

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Buenos Aires Argentina History - Puerto Madero Neighborhood Redevelopment Guide Puerto Madero: Un Modelo de Gestión Urbana / A Model of Urban Management by Félix Luna, Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero S.A., Marcela S. Fernández, Alberto Agostinelli, and Gustavo N. Fernández. A Large-format bilingual Spanish-English architectural and urban planning history documenting the dramatic transformation of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from a decaying 19th-century docklands district into one of the most ambitious waterfront redevelopment projects in Latin America. Richly illustrated with color photography, historical studies, planning documents, architectural imagery, and panoramic views of modern Buenos Aires, this handsome volume chronicles the rebirth of the old port through the work of Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero S.A. (CAPMSA). The book places Puerto Madero within the larger history of Buenos Aires, the Río de la Plata, and Argentina’s emergence as a global commercial power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes discussion of the original port designed in the era of President Julio Argentino Roca and engineer Eduardo Madero, whose enclosed dock system once connected Argentina’s booming agricultural exports to the world economy during the age of British investment, refrigerated shipping, and mass immigration from Italy and Spain. Explores the decline of the old harbor facilities after the development of Puerto Nuevo and the decades-long attempts

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