Figurations of the suburbs. Commercial maps and metropolitan growth in Greater Buenos Aires, 1940-1950 Figuraciones del suburbio. Mapas comerciales y expansión metropolitana en el Gran Buenos Aires, 1940-1950

FAVELUKES, GRACIELA; PINTUS, ANA GÓMEZ; NOVICK, ALICIA

EGA Revista de Expression Grafica Arquitectonica

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Lugar: valencia; Año: 2019 vol. 24 p. 156 - 167

1133-6137

During the first half of the twentieth century, Greater Buenos Aires underwent a process of extensive urban land production and expansion. Accompanying the above there was the work of a group of surveyors of suburban land in a scenario of a booming real estate market. This paper introduces the cartographies of Maximo Randrup (1880-1954).Those draw our attention to a growing market of commercial urban cartographies while triggering some questions about which and how urban growth is shown in contrast with official maps. First approaches to the subject account for images which represent a continuum of urbanized territory, incorporating street network patterns from subdivisions and developments which had not yet crystallized in those years, and which could not be corroborated even decades later, from the newer cartographies. What is observed is that some of those developments drawn on paper never really unfolded in the territory.