Abstract

SIDY, Bettina. Crecimiento y control de la vida urbana: Un análisis de los bandos del Gobierno en el Buenos Aires Colonial (1742-1762). Cuad. urbano [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.10, pp.41-61. ISSN 1853-3655.

During the middle of the 18th Century Buenos Aires experienced important urban transformations as a result of social, economic and demographic changes. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship established, through the "bandos" (decrees) of River Plate Governors, between diverse problems resulting from urban growth and related government measures between 1740 and 1762. We seek to observe what were the governors' main concerns and what kind of solutions they appealed to in each case, in order to explore the contradictions that arose between possibilities and concrete practices and the ideal urban organization they seeked to impose. To do this we focus on the decrees which referred to the uses of physical spaces and their control in relation to the growing urban population.

Keywords : Governors; Buenos Aires; Contradictions; Urban transformations.