Urban renewal processes in Rosario

Features of two ongoing large urban projects

Abstract

This research is concerned with the large urban interventions implemented in the city of Rosario -Province of Santa Fe- since the 1990s. Thus, it contributes to the debate about the unique features that this type of urban transformation operations has introduced in intermediate-scale cities not only as operations in themselves but also in regard to the impacts they have produced on urban and socio-economic issues. It poses the progress attained through two cases of urban renewal in inner areas of the city that are being subjected to different implementation stages. They deal with Scalabrini Ortiz Urban Renewal Center and former Communication Battalion 121 Urban Renewal Center. Although both project processes have been developing since early 2000s with the inauguration of two great urban facilities: Alto Rosario Complex and Municipal Center of the South District, respectively, they have been approached in very different ways. Besides differing in extent and position value, one of them can be described as a Large Urban Project in consolidation in which private management has preeminence; the other one can be viewed as a sui-generis and incipient Large Urban Project in which public management plays a more significant role.