How can an informal community in the heart of Buenos Aires be legally transformed to generate shared and equitable value?
Buenos Aires’ most celebrated barrio is a 75-year-old community without legal land tenure rights, located behind a railroad station along the Buenos Aires waterfront. Imagine an unprecedented transformation that transfers land title to those who built their own homes by hand, introduces a new neighborhood-specific city building code, retrofits all existing buildings to ensure public safety, and reimagines a freeway flyover as a new civic space. A “build first” strategy of over 800 new units of housing ensures all families are able to remain within the community as a gritty industrial waterfront is slowly transformed into Buenos Aire’s newest waterfront neighborhood.
Services included stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, organizational capacity building, urban planning, design review, and design management. Client: World Bank Group & Municipality of Buenos Aires, 2015-2019.