Neoliberal governmentality and sustainability in urban planning: an analysis of the rationalities of the Territorial Model 2010-2060 for the city of Buenos Aires

Abstract

In this article we analyze the articulation of the discourse of sustainability and neoliberal political rationality in the field of urban planning. Our research focuses on the rationalities of the authorities of the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015. Precisely, the Undersecretary of Planning, of the Ministry of Urban Development, published in 2009 a document that outlined the principles for the design of public policies: the Buenos Aires Territorial Model 2010-2060. In this document, a prospective vision for the city was embodied, presenting the sustainability discourse as a transformative logic, since it would allow the authorities to understand the dynamic trends of the population, enabling the production of technologies to conduct such practices. Using the content analysis technique, we study how the highest government authorities established in this document, a vocation to effectively govern the relationship between society, economy and environment.

Keywords

• gubernamentalidad
• planeamiento urbano
• sustentabilidad
• buenos aires