Conflictive sustainability landscapes: the neoliberal quagmire of urban environmental planning in Buenos Aires

Centner, Ryan

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“…En el MT se observa que prevalece en la relación "sustentable" el peso de variables ambientales y económicas sobre las sociales y políticas. Entre otras limitaciones, se destaca en dicho documento la fragmentación de la proyección de paisajes conflictivos que colisionan entre sí con escasas posibilidades de alcanzar una práctica exitosa debido a múltiples y contradictorias encarnaciones de la noción de sustentabilidad, codificada eminentemente en términos neoliberales (cEntnEr, 2009). y miLLEr, 1992; gorDon, 1991), como es el caso de los modelos, planes urbanísticos y leyes.…”

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“…Un ejemplo de ello es la industria farmacéutica y la explotación de recursos naturales en selvas tropicales, como el Amazonas(LEmkE, 2002). Precisamente, el contexto de emergencia de la noción de sustentabilidad coincide con el del neoliberalismo, entendido como una ideología de organización económica que presume que la optimización de la vida puede granjearse a partir de la coordinación de paradigmas coordinados a través del mercado, de modo tal que el Estado se restringe a actuar como un operador de su encumbramiento y optimización(vELtmEyEr, pEtras & viEux, 1997;mohan, Brown, Zack-wiLLiams & miLwarD, 2000;BaBB, 2005;cEntnEr, 2009). En ese contexto histórico, las principales capacidades y conceptos clave de la sustentabilidad se traducen en la formulación de programas de gobierno concretos (rosE…”

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La gubernamentalidad neoliberal y la sustentabilidad en el planeamiento urbano: un análisis de las racionalidades del Modelo Territorial 2010-2060 para la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Gutman

Rullansky

2020

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En este artículo analizamos la articulación del discurso de la sustentabilidad y la racionalidad política neoliberal en el ámbito del planeamiento urbano. Nuestra indagación se centra en las racionalidades de las autoridades del gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires de 2007 a 2015. En efecto, la Subsecretaría de Planeamiento, del Ministerio de Desarrollo Urbano, publicó en 2009 un documento que delineó los principios para el diseño de políticas públicas: el Modelo Territorial Buenos Aires 2010-2060. Aquí se plasmó una visión prospectiva para la ciudad que introdujo el discurso de la sustentabilidad como lógica transformadora, pues permitiría a las autoridades comprender las dinámicas tendenciales de la población y habilitaba la producción de tecnologías para conducir dichas prácticas. A partir de la técnica del análisis de contenido, estudiamos cómo las máximas autoridades de gobierno rubricaron en este documento una vocación de gobernar eficazmente la relación entre sociedad, economía y medio ambiente.

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La gubernamentalidad neoliberal y la sustentabilidad en el planeamiento urbano: un análisis de las racionalidades del Modelo Territorial 2010-2060 para la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Gutman

Rullansky

2020

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“…8 The Urban Environmental Plan delineates broad strategies for growth and is itself mired in conflictual language, stressing integration, sustainability, and competitiveness. See Centner (2009) for an overview of these contradictions.…”

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“…In this sense, the creative city is but one iteration in what has come to encompass a broader range of policy agendas that include issues of sustainability, traditionally thought of as representing a constraint on urban growth (Campbell 1996;Greenberg forthcoming). 5 Ostensibly seeking to rectify problems characteristic of Latin American cities-segregation (Portes and Roberts 2005), exclusion (Auyero 2000;Caldeira and Holston 1999), and territorial imbalances (Centner 2009;Ciccolella 1999;Libertun de Duran 2006)-these projects stress progressive goals such as cultural expression, ecological integrity, and socioterritorial integration, even as scholars note the hardening of social and class boundaries in Buenos Aires (Grimson 2008) and cities around the world.…”

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Urban Fads and Consensual Fictions: Creative, Sustainable, and Competitive City Policies in Buenos Aires

Lederman

2015

City & Community

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Scholarship in urban sociology has pointed to the reliance of city governments on ever‐more market mechanisms for organizing social and economic policy. This form of governance involves prioritizing cities’ cultural and social assets for their value in a global competition of urban “brands,” each competing for new infusions of human and investment capital. At the same time, however, cities have been at the center of seemingly progressive policy efforts aimed at promoting innovation, sustainability, and creativity. These themes represent a newly dominant planning discourse in cities across the globe. While researchers have thoroughly examined how “creative classes” and “creative cities” may exclude everyday, working‐class, or poor residents, new urban imaginaries focused on sustainability potentially imply less stratified urban outcomes. Analyzing two high‐profile interventions in Buenos Aires, Argentina—a sustainable urban regeneration plan for the historic downtown, and the creation of an arts cluster in the impoverished south of the city—this paper argues that despite divergent narratives, creative and sustainable urban projects suggest similar policy agendas, planning assumptions, and relationships to market mechanisms. Increasingly, global policies, whose design and objectives may appear to contradict market logics, may have outcomes that further them.

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“…Nevertheless, citizen insurgency has also made way for state-sponsored forms of participatory governance. While there are successful examples of participatory environmental governance, such as the case of Porto Alegre as described by Menegat (2002), other analysts looking at both urban (Centner 2009) and rural (Bachmann, Delgado, and Marín 2007;Walker, Jones, Roberts, and Frohling 2007) cases suggest that participatory decision-making on environmental questions has often been fraught with limitations and contradictions. Moreover, participatory decision-making at one scale is often derailed by political forces operating at other scales.…”

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Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: A New Paradigm for Theory and Practice

Latta

Wittman²

2010

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As a reflection of the ecological pressures associated with rapid modernization and globalization, the environment has become an enduring theme of public debate and protest in Latin America. Over the past decade, scholars have made increasing connections between such debate and a range of questions related to citizenship. Meanwhile, a discourse of 'environmental citizenship' has a growing prevalence in policy across the region. While these developments echo similar political and academic trends in the Global North, the Latin American context demands a unique set of theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the intersection of ecology and citizenship, sensitive to the specific historical, cultural, and ecological character of the region. We outline a research agenda spanning questions of land, identity and citizenship; environmental justice and de-colonization; social subjectivity and the state; urban natures and citizens; and the materiality/subjectivity of nature. This array of approaches points to a more acute conceptualization of citizenship, both in terms of its understanding of politics and its treatment of ecology; it also offers a point of view that recognizes citizens and natures as dynamic realities, which mutually condition each other in a sphere of ongoing contest.

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Conflictive sustainability landscapes: the neoliberal quagmire of urban environmental planning in Buenos Aires

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

La gubernamentalidad neoliberal y la sustentabilidad en el planeamiento urbano: un análisis de las racionalidades del Modelo Territorial 2010-2060 para la ciudad de Buenos Aires

La gubernamentalidad neoliberal y la sustentabilidad en el planeamiento urbano: un análisis de las racionalidades del Modelo Territorial 2010-2060 para la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Urban Fads and Consensual Fictions: Creative, Sustainable, and Competitive City Policies in Buenos Aires

Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: A New Paradigm for Theory and Practice

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