Floods in Buenos Aires : Their treatment at the city council

ABSTRACT

This paper deals with one aspect of disasters in Argentina's urban spaces. It makes reference to some physical events-i.e. rainfall- occurring in the country's Federal District, and bringing about a number of alterations in the population's everyday life and giving rise to several negative impacts on its quality of life. It consists of some background, an introduction and a brief story of floods in the city of Buenos Aires, dwelling on their causes in some detail. Next, there is an analysis of how the recurring flooding processes suffered by the city become an object of urban policy and therefore how this transformation takes place within the city council- i.e. the local parliament- based on a discu