New Capital Argentina: self-understanding, self-construction and self-financing

(*) Note: Published in "La Reforma", General Pico, La Pampa Argentina, May 19, 1988 and reproduced in the magazine "Join", Buenos Aires, Argentina N. 81, July / August 1988 1. This development aims to demonstrate that there are alternatives that allow autoconcebir, self-constructed and self-finance the New Capital of Argentina. The same is merely a consolidation of the communications processing and we have been doing on this issue. 2. The basic thesis of the proposal is that: both within the various branches of the Argentine State (Nation, Provinces and Municipalities) and within the community fabric, it has the potential human and material resources for the New Capital, minimizing costs and maximizing opportunities for personal and community development. It only requires adequate mobilization and coordination to promote and / or channel the influences of participation and creativity to be triggered. 3. The location chosen facilitates the construction and operation of the new capital at very low costs. Some of the ingredients of this statement are as follows: 3.1.) Existing infrastructure in transport and communications, 3.2.) The possibility of self-supply of fresh food (fruit and vegetable, meat, dairy l, fish and seafood), 3.3 .) The absence of restrictions on drinking water, 3.4.) A mild climate conducive to productivity (14 C mean annual temperature), 3.5.) Energy from renewable sources (dams, rivers Neuquén, Limay and the Colorado ) 3.6.) Sand and gravel suitable for construction, both in the bed of the Black River, and San Blas Bay, and 3.7.) Black River as a waterway. 4.

The possibilities of the Black River as a waterway, deserve a more detailed treatment, because of its intensive use, lowering costs significantly both the construction and operation of the New Capital. The reason is very clear: According to the technical fees for water transport is at least thirty-five (35) times more expensive than road transport. This would mean: 4.1.) That a cross by ferries system would minimize the need to build expensive new bridges over the river, 4.2.) That a passenger transport system, either by ship or hydrofoil type air-cushion vehicles could be implemented along the river and eventually out to sea, 4.3.) That the supply of fresh supplies could be done for river boats, which would enable the reactivation of production including the islands upstream, as the fishing boats return to venturing into the sea, 4.4.) existing naval technology enables the same course of the river or in the Bay of San Blas, or untapped overseas port of San Antonio Este, emerging operations are conducted for the construction or removals necessary, without saturating the highway system, 4.5.) The banks of the lower reaches of the river could be used for gambling boats that serve as housing and offices for the respective workshop; 4.6.) The river can again be used for seaplane landing on water , which would increase the supply of transport to, defendant, without building new airports and optimizing the use of tracks Viedma, San Antonio Oeste and Patagones, the first two and paved. 5.

According to the above what would have would be to design and build homes, public buildings and street furniture appropriate (including utilities). In doing so would place the state sector, for / private companies and intermediary bodies (trade unions, business chambers, cooperatives, cooperative, mutual funds, foundations, sports, national academies, professional associations and religious organizations). All they could carry out private companies and intermediary bodies with their own resources, would inhibit the direct action of the state sector.

6. For the purpose of detecting the wills available to accompany the undertaking emerge as appropriate the following courses of action: 6.1.) Open at all post offices, a record of people and institutions willing to participate in tasks related to the transfer, indicating that , type of contribution would be able to carry out, 6.2. The Register Permanent Automatic Data National Public Administration, add a program to relieve the volunteers on the subject are among public officials. 7. Using Auto Registration mentioned in the previous section, you can count instantly with the number of architects, engineers, surveyors, land surveyors, master builder or other existing staff in the tables of the National Public Administration in a position to participate in the design and construction of the new capital without other compensation than they receive regularly. This register shows the possibilities of computer equipment and their appropriate official personnel, which are underutilized and that in the present case can make a substantive contribution to the coordination and mobilization tasks suggested here. 8. As important as the qualifications of the staff mentioned in the previous section are some organizational structures of the National Public Administration.

Whether through its mission and functions, either by the experiences of his career, there are several r, partitions that have the human capacity and physical resources, legal, documentaries, computer and even financial, to carry out tasks related to the implementation of New Capital. By way of example we can mention: National Architecture; Army Engineer Command, Secretary of Housing and Environmental Management, National Institute of Industrial Technology, National Mortgage Bank, National Directorate of Port and Waterway Construction, National Council of Technical Education, Workshops National Protected Federal Penitentiary Service, National Park Service; Argentine Railways, National Highways and National Council of Scientific and Technical Research 9. Deserve a separate paragraph the possibilities of the national university system, particularly the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture Through a subsystem that enable telematic resources available, the university in Argentina can become a workshop consulting, research and extension, through the assistance of their cloisters teachers and their students. It would be making a major creeks, which has been conducting a small scale and unconnected experiences. 10 If through the Auto Registration mentioned, wonders what public officer who is not a homeowner, willing to relocate to the new capital, if you provide a home that would begin to pay at the time of occupancy If you perform this research would indicate the magnitude of the agents willing to transfer and financial mass currently paid in rent and what would happen to the genuine financing of housing As the hypothesis assumes that most public officials, especially the younger lack of homeownership, the limit of the agents would be given to move by themselves and not by another criterion estimated 11 Through the vocational training system of the National Council of Technical Education (CONET), those public servants that he agreed, could pay part of the house they received, working on construction sites that receive prior training in working hours and if possible in their workplaces through this same pattern of rapid CONET could receive job skills students, prisoners, conscripts, the disabled and volunteers in general 12 With respect to public services (running water, sanitation, electricity, paving and sidewalks, gas, telephone, urban transport and river, forestry and cemetery), and considering that the demand for each service is a kind of captive market and expected magnitudes serious proposal that unions in each specialty formed a cooperative with a small and transient state participation (Article 19 °, Law 20 337) and receive the award of this service concession Public Works (Law 17.

520) The single award would allow each cooperative or a federation of them eventually get the respective financing is worth adding that the payment for services could be deducted directly from earnings of the recipients 13 Both the shape of the concession of public works (17. 520), like the antichresis (Chapter XVI, Civil Code) are those which would allow the participation of domestic private capital and / or abroad, for example, could build on antichresis the building of Ministry of Economy, as follows: private investment build a ten story building and related facilities, five floors are for the operation of the Ministry and the rest will explode the respective company to recover the investment if it is established that really need more bridges over the Black River, the private sector could for public works concession building these bridges and recover the investment by the tolls would be entitled to charge 14. One of the many forms of participation of the rich fabric of intermediary bodies in the company would be as follows Each entity that requests it would receive from the government, a plot of land to build facilities for their operations (headquarters, branches, hotels, libraries, auditoriums, sports facilities, etc..) For those concessions expire no entities should comply strictly with the relevant requirements (submission of plans, studies of soil, earth movement, the beginning of construction, forestry, enabling schedule) not hard to imagine the number of jobs work that would generate such embodiment 15.

The restrictions of journalistic work to expand prevent larval developments in the previous sections but such statements are illustrative of a New Capital implemented in a manner similar to that suggested here is something possible in this monographic The work also hints that could be refined exponentially through further elaborations collective and multidisciplinary We are aware that the methodology proposed here has few points of agreement with which till now has been using but we are convinced that it enriches the project and the rule of law makes corrections . Note Published in "La Reforma", General Pico, La Pampa Argentina, May 19, 1988 and reproduced in the magazine "Join", Buenos Aires, Argentina No. 81, July / August 1988.