WE WANTED TO BE NICE… OR MONTECARLO

Plan and Memory of the Beautification Works of the Coast. Submitted to the Minister of Public Works of the Province of Buenos Aires by the Commission appointed by Decree dated April 22, 1912. Buenos Aires. South American Bank Note Company. August 1914.

Quarto (29.7 x 20 cm), 20 pp., 11 folded maps. Rustic publisher's binding.

This is the project with the Works Plan aimed at renovating the coasts of the Río de la Plata in the districts of Vicente López, San Fernando, San Isidro and Las Conchas (today Tigre). The technical plan was carried out under the guidance of engineers Jorge Duclout and Benito J. Carrasco. It had as a central axis, the construction of an avenue parallel to the coast that would link the capital city with El Tigre, with a 17-kilometer route along the riverbank. The urbanization processes required these efforts accompanying the development of the population.

Everything was incipient… “In front of each of the towns on the coast, works of greater importance will be built”, and in Olivos, “a place that lends itself to doing really interesting work because it is one of the most picturesque on the coast, the constructions they will take on a greater magnitude (...) something similar to what exists in Nice and Monte Carlo”.