Buenos Aires and Rosario: Large-Scale Urban Projects and the Just City

This chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents and, in regard to the article, addresses the experience of large-scale urban projects (GPUs) in Argentina from the concept of just city as developed by the urban planning theorist Susan Fainstein. Although initially it may seem that the orientations of large urban projects and the references to just city are antithetical, Fainstein's contributions expose the complexity of the issue, transcending the dichotomy between uncritical acceptance and full rejection, as well as clarifying differences between various megaprojects. Based on previous approaches on GPUs and secondary literature, the experiences of Puerto Norte (Rosario) and Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires) are approached and compared from the just city perspective. The conclusion is that, despite its distance from the public components incorporated in initiatives addressed by Fainstein in cities of the Global North, the Rosario case contemplates more aspects of equity than the case of Buenos Aires.