El crecimiento urbano de una ciudad turística y las políticas de ordenamiento territorial: El caso de San Carlos de Bariloche y el Plan Director de 1979

Abstract

Spatial planning in cities often means the balance of interests between the private exploitation of certain public places and urban planning policies. Moreover if this balance is part of the growth of a tourist town, where antagonism of interests may find more entrenched. The fact that the urban growth of Bariloche has historically advanced on the shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake gets put as question the role of the natural environment in the logic of land use, but also allows look towards the instruments of urban regulation that the State can use to intervene in the territory. In this direction, this article aims to identify the main objectives of the Master Plan of 1979 and its normative expression, the 1980 planning code, and then analyze its effective instrumentation until the enactment of new urban code in 1995. It is concluded that the local real estate market sets, ultimately, the growth of the city: this reproduces the unequal and dispersed nature of its spatial pattern and becomes harmless State urban planning policies.