Until vacant public lands or bury the railroad, is unlikely to reach the Dinan sector needed to be projected as Concepción river city.
Convened by the Municipality of Concepcion, architects and planners met several days ago to discuss the development of the city. It was a heterogeneous group, formed by academics from the four universities that provide career in the area, representatives of the private construction sector and other leading professionals.
The eyes were multiple and contrasting.
While some emphasized the rapid growth in height and densification of the center, others questioned a certain permissiveness of the regulatory plan. They also discussed the need to recover and increase green areas to encourage pedestrian spaces and bicycle lanes, revitalize trade and create new urban landmarks.
However, almost all agreed on the diagnosis of the Coast, where for the last decade has run the program "North Shore" of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The views came to a consensus that there was an urgent need to reinvigorate and accelerate the initiative, to effectively end to vacate public lands that exist in the Bio Bio river bank and incorporate the development of the city. Why
Concepción, after a decade and over a hundred million in public investment has failed to conquer the river Bio Bio? The question goes back to the origin of the city, in the Valle de La Mocha after the 1751 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the human settlement located in what is now Penco. Its inhabitants, tired of the pain he had caused the nature, sought a safer place, far from the sea.
The Biobío also was then a threat to the safety of Concepción, who the main square located 1,500 meters from the riverbank. In the early twentieth century came the railways and the railway also was placed parallel to the tributary, constitute a new barrier. Then, the process of rural-urban migration would lead to only the poorest were forced to live in that space, the town outcast.
The situation remained virtually unchanged until early 1990 when the government raised the need for better living conditions for nearly two thousand families living on the Coast and also to integrate this large area of \u200b\u200bland to the city. North Bank Project was born. During the period
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle was planning initiative, which was a sectional plan for that area, and executed the most significant works, Bridge and Ocean Drive Llacolén-cost housing for 1,400 families, the first phase of park and the displacement of the railway to make room for new Civic Quarter.
Ten years after the big push, the North Shore of Conception has undergone a major transformation and the city is on the verge of witnessing the transfer of the Administration to recover the building of the former Railway Station. Arturo Prat Avenue is currently showing the fruits of this impulse for renewal. However, integration has not materialized and hundreds of families still living in public lands in the midst of rubble and garbage.
expectations are placed on the next move of the Administration. The installation in this area that the government will see this reality every day. It is hoped that this stimulation is achieved relaunching the North Shore program requires, including the undergrounding of the railway, in order to achieve what he dreamed Concepción over a hundred years to look at the Bio Bio River.
* The Journal Editorial Sur. December 11, 2006. Costs
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