Abstract

GARCIA, Ariel. Rise and Fall of Regional Planning in Argentina: Between the Quest for Embedded Autonomy and the Economic Scenario of Peripheral Capitalism (1965-2015). Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.1, pp.180-194. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v27n1.58053.

Regional planning in Latin America has traversed a long path. Analyzed from the beginning of the 21st century, it seems to include instruments that would make possible the public management of regional inequality with a comprehensive approach. The article analyzes the relation between the bureaucratic apparatus of the State and regional planning in two moments: the decades of the 1960s and 2010s. Two specific promotion policies are examined: the National Development Plan (1965-1969) and the Strategic Territorial Plan- Argentina 2016. On the basis of the analysis it is possible to argue that neither State bureaucracies nor private sector actors have managed to establish cooperation mechanisms that ensure a shared project, thus creating a situation characterized by the absence of “embedded autonomy”.

Keywords : embedded autonomy; State bureaucracies; regional inequalities; regional planning; public policies.

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