This is a prototype digital dissertation developed by Alex Galarza as a Cultural Heritage Informatics fellow at MATRIX. Click the functional chapter below, "The Ciudad Deportiva" to view the prototype.
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Boca Júniors’s Ciudad Deportiva was a mix between a stadium complex and amusement park built over seven artificial islands on sixty hectares of land filled in the Rio de la Plata. Besides an enormous 140,000-seat stadium and various athletic facilities, the project was to include an aquarium, mini-golf, mechanical rides for children, and a drive-in movie theatre for 500 cars. This project combined public and private funds, embodying a new vision of middle-class consumption that fit into city planner’s designs for a modern city with ample leisure space. A combination of poor engineering, financial mismanagement, and political disputes ensured that the ambitious plans started in 1965 would be largely abandoned by the 1978 World Cup deadline.
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