BUENOS AIRES E A HABITAÇÃO OBREIRA PERONISTA: BARRIO 17 DE OCTUBRE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.85619180710

• Palavras-chave: Paisagem urbana; Política habitacional; Buenos Aires.

• Keywords: Urban landscape; Housing policy; Buenos Aires

• Abstract:

  During the nineteenth century Argentina suffers an exponential

  demographic growth that creates a dwelling problem. It will be in the twentieth century

  that a housing policy directed to the low income population will reach its peak with

  the rise of Juan Domingo de Perón, in the year of 1946. With the necessity to obtain

  fidelity from the popular levels of society, Perón will make considerable urban changes,

  providing dwellings by bank credit, or by giving the keys of recently built dwellings.

  Buenos Aires was turned into a huge building site, where many proposals, from different

  sectors, left the theory field to become real. Entire neighborhoods of houses and modern

  blocks – these with huge influence of the contemporary European dwelling solutions -

  were build. The objective of this article is to study some of those modern blocks which

  are responsible for great changes on the sociocultural scenario of Argentina’s capital

  city. Many workers moved from shantytowns to new apartments with hot piped water,

  a luxury at the time. Through the neighborhood 17 de Octubre (1948-1950) in Buenos

  Aires, we will try to understand the effects of these change on the cultural landscape

  and also expose how Peron´s political need resulted into substantial changes on the

  life of thousands of workers that lived in unhealthy conditions. The methodology is

  basically bibliographic and documental, always considering that, through the present

  investigation, distinct areas of the knowledge are addressed, such as architecture, city

  and history on its interconnections.

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