INVESTIGADORES
GALIMBERTI cecilia Ines
artículos
Título:
Urban Design in river front transformations as an enabler of new urban "imaginability": The case of the central river front of Rosario (Argentina) El diseño urbano en frentes fluviales como posibilitador de una nueva "imaginabilidad" urbana: caso ribera central de Rosario (Argentina)
Autor/es:
GALIMBERTI, CECILIA
Revista:
Kepes
Editorial:
Universidad de Caldas
Referencias:
Lugar: Caldas; Año: 2021 vol. 18 p. 47 - 78
ISSN:
1794-7111
Resumen:
This article inquires into the image of the transformation of river fronts through urban design and the development of new articulating public spaces between the fabric and the water. Based on the developments carried out by György Kepes and Kevin Lynch, the paper focuses especially on the concepts of imaginability and legibility. The work is carried out through a qualitative method and the methodology is based on the phenomenological approach developing a territorial hermeneutic through case studies for which, four relevant waterfronts transformations of the last sixty years are analyzed: Baltimore Inner Harbor (USA); London Docklands (England); Ría 2000 of Bilbao (Spain) and Battery Park, New York (USA), later deepening into the case of the central riverside reconversion of Rosario (Argentina). This case study is representative because the claim to change the relationship between the city and its river has been present since the first decades of the twentieth century, requesting the transfer of rail-port infrastructures (still active and of great economic relevance) to other sectors, in order to restructure the central coast into new public spaces. However, it is from the definitive democratic return in Argentina in the mid-1980s, that various continuous actions have been carried out over time to restructure the image of a metropolis that grew with its back to the river, to become a city facing the Paraná thus strengthening its identity, structure and meaning. Urban design plays a key role in changing urban imaginability. However, in order that these reconversions do not generate standardized global images, it is necessary to listen carefully to the demands of the population, their symbolic values and their heritage, giving place to local specificities and their particular identity.