The strategic management of the cities. The case of an average city of South America: Mar del Plata (Argentina)

Abstract

Since the 1990s, Argentina lives under a strategic planning «plague» consequence of the transference of the state crisis to the district level and of the macroeconomic policies. Strategic plans have the advantage of allowing us to identify, for each particular case of planning, the interest groups which pretend, through the instrumentation of a specific public policy, to gain weight inside and outside the district. On the other side, and this being the purpose of the present article, strategic plans are a reflection of the growth and consolidation of corporatism at the local level and, specifically, of the private management of public interest.