TY - BOOK AU - Liernur, Jorge Francisco. AU - Liernur,Jorge Francisco TI - Case: Puerto Madero Waterfront. T2 - Case SN - 9783791335179 AV - HT178.A72 C37 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Munich; London : PB - Prestel; [Cambrigde, Mass.] KW - Waterfronts KW - Argentina KW - Buenos Aires KW - Urban renewal KW - Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires, Argentina) N1 - index; Bibliography; Contents: Series Forward 7 -- Preface 9 -- Introduction Jorge F. Liernur 11 -- The Theater of the Plata Graciela Silvestri 18 -- First Images of the Plata 19 -- The Emergence of the Landscape of the Plata River Region 21 -- The Utopia of the Mississippi 23 -- The Aesthetics of Progress 25 -- Literary Metaphysics 26 -- Nostalgia 29 -- Puerto Madero : An Argentine History Jorge F. Liernur 32 -- The Place : Entry or Rearguard of a Regional Space (1532-1890) 33 -- The Madero Machinery 35 -- Radical Changes 39 -- Imaginary Futes 41 -- The ''Natural'' Place : The Park and the River 42 -- Opposition between Nonplace and Portal 42 -- The Mirror of the City 42 -- Balance between North and South 44 -- Urban Reconversion and Port Uses Luis Javier Dominguez Roca 48 -- Current Role of the Buenos Aires Port 49 -- Port City Reconversion : Puerto Madero, Pioneering Operation 51 -- Port City Reconversion and Port Port Reconversion : The Relationship between Puerto Madero and Puerto Nuevo 52 -- The Keys to Success and Future Risks 57 -- What Problems and Threats Will It Have to Confront in the Future? 58 -- The Appropriation of Value 59 -- The Puerto Madero Competition and Urban Ideas in Buenos Aires in the 1980s Adrián Gorelik 62 -- Archeologies of Modernity 63 -- Central Area Extension : Compromise between Modernization and Modernism 65 -- Public Space and Monument Urbanistic Ideas between Democracy and the Crisis 66 -- From Corporation to Master Plan : The Arrival of Developers 68 -- From Debate to Competition : The Construction of Consensus 70 -- Puerto Madero and the Fragmentary Modernization of Buenos Aires 71 -- On the Administration of Urban Projects : The Lessons of Puerto Madero Alfredo M. Garay 74 -- Establishing the Corporation 76 -- Construction of Agreements 76 -- The Viability of the Operation 80 -- The First Sales 80 -- Conclusion 80 -- The Architecture of Puerto Madero in the 1990s Claudia Shmidt 84 -- Contributors 105 -- Index 106 -- Illustration Credits 108 -- ER -