[101], Buenos Aires is also home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the second largest in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. [202], Buenos Aires has long been considered an intellectual and literary capital of Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. Four of them are located in Buenos Aires, and the studios of America is located in La Plata. According to data released by Moovit in July 2017, the average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Buenos Aires, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 79 min. District 2 District 2 County Commission President Connie Hudson (251) 574-2000 Email: district2web@mobilecountyal.gov Commissioner Connie Hudson has been an active member of the Mobile community for more than 25 years with extensive volunteer and public service experience. Yiddish was commonly heard in Buenos Aires, especially in the Balvanera garment district and in Villa Crespo until the 1960s. There is a mix, due to immigration, of Colonial, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic, and French Bourbon styles. The most recent expansions to the network were the addition of numerous stations to the network in 2013: San Jos de Flores and San Pedrito to Line A, Echeverra and Juan Manuel de Rosas to Line B and Hospitales to Line H. Current works include the completion of Line H northwards and addition of three new stations to Line E in the city center. Buenos Aires has been the birthplace of several artists and movements of national and international relevance, and has become a central motif in Argentine artistic production, especially since the 20th century.[196]. [46][49] The highest temperature ever recorded was 43.3C (110F) on 29 January 1957. [52] Relative humidity averages in the upper 70s%, which means the city is noted for moderate-to-heavy fogs during autumn and winter. The city has numerous museums related to arts and crafts, history, fine arts, modern arts, decorative arts, popular arts, sacred art, theater and popular music, as well as the preserved homes of noted art collectors, writers, composers and artists. William serves on numerous boards and committees throughout the city while also dedicating his time to coaching youth football and basketball. A 300,000-candela beacon was installed at the top (110 m), making the building visible even from Uruguay. Before 2011, due to the Argentine peso's favorable exchange rate, its shopping centers such as Alto Palermo, Paseo Alcorta, Patio Bullrich, Abasto de Buenos Aires and Galeras Pacfico were frequently visited by tourists. [198] During the 1960s, the Torcuato di Tella Institute located in Florida Street became a leading local center for pop art, performance art, installation art, conceptual art, and experimental theater; this generation of artists included Marta Minujn, Dalila Puzzovio, David Lamelas, Clorindo Testa and Diana Dowek. De la Ra's successor, Anbal Ibarra, won two popular elections, but was impeached (and ultimately deposed on 6 March 2006) as a result of the fire at the Repblica Cromagnon nightclub. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000 (IIGG Documentos de Trabajo, N 14): http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/docs/dt/dt14.pdf), "The Virtual Jewish History Tour Argentina", "Censo Nacional de Poblacin, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Pueblos Originarios: Regin Metropolitana: Serie D N, "Cuadro P42-P. Ciudad Autnoma de Buenos Aires. The city is home to the Argentine Super Rugby franchise, the Jaguares. Newer modern high-technology buildings by Argentine architects in the last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st include the Le Parc Tower by Mario lvarez, the Torre Fortabat by Snchez Ela, and the Repsol-YPF Tower by Csar Pelli. Councilwoman Gina Gregory abstained from the final vote. [213] Italian music was very influential during the 19th century and the early 20th century, in part because of immigration, but operas and salon music were also composed by Argentines, including Francisco Hargreaves and Juan Gutirrez. [167], A fleet of 40,000 black-and-yellow taxis ply the streets at all hours. Examples include: the Paris Group so named for being influenced by the School of Paris constituted by Antonio Berni, Aquiles Badi, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Raquel Forner and Alfredo Bigatti, among others; and[197] the La Boca artists including Benito Quinquela Martn and Alfredo Lazzari, among others who mostly came from Italy or were of Italian descent, and usually painted scenes from working-class port neighborhoods. [76] Measured in terms of income, the city's poverty rate was 8.4% in 2007 and, including the metro area, 20.6%. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. In 1335, King Alfonso the Gentle donated the church to the Mercedarians, who built an abbey that stands to this day. Other revenues include user fees, fines, and gambling duties. [190] Murals and graffiti are so common that they are considered "an everyday occurrence," and have become part of the urban landscape of barrios such as Palermo, Villa Urquiza, Coghlan and San Telmo. [152] One of the most major projects under way is the electrification of the remaining segments of the Roca Line the most widely used in the network and also moving the entire section of the Sarmiento Line which runs through the heart of the city's underground to allow for better frequencies on the line and reduce congestion above ground. The new map will not take effect until the next city election in 2025. [20], For many years, the name was attributed to a Sancho del Campo, who is said to have exclaimed: How fair are the winds of this land!, as he arrived. Chinese immigration is the fourth largest in Argentina, with the vast majority of them living in Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area. [114] The Buenos Aires Human Development Index (0.889 in 2019) is likewise high by international standards. [116] Nearly 300 hotels and another 300 hostels and bed & breakfasts are licensed for tourism, and nearly half the rooms available were in four-star establishments or higher.[117]. This was South America's tallest building at the time and was the first Argentine skyscraper built with concrete (19191923). Omar Narvaez, Lucas Matthysse, Carolina Duer, and Marcos Maidana are five modern-day world champions as well. These included Manuel Antn, Lautaro Mura and Ren Mugica, among others.[219]. [36][37], The city of Buenos Aires lies in the pampa region, with the exception of some areas such as the Buenos Aires Ecological Reserve, the Boca Juniors (football club)'s "sports city", Jorge Newbery Airport, the Puerto Madero neighborhood and the main port itself; these were all built on reclaimed land along the coasts of the Rio de la Plata (the world's widest river).[38][39][40]. [239] They show everything from musicals to ballet, comedy to circuses. The dictatorship's appointed mayor, Osvaldo Cacciatore, also drew up plans for a network of freeways intended to relieve the city's acute traffic gridlock. Email: district2web@mobilecountyal.gov . [68] The people of Buenos Aires also elect 25 national deputies to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. In addition, Buenos Aires station serves as a minor terminus. Formerly, a seven-member council (including the mayor) was elected by all the voters citywide. Part of the discussion in city council meetings has revolved around inclusivity and race because some have expressed concerns that if Mobile takes on more territory, the areas already in need will be left out. On 17 March 1992, a bomb exploded in the Israeli Embassy, killing 29 and injuring 242. What the city council has agreed to, with regards to the districts that were in play, significantly, which was seven, primarily, is that we would maintain the four black demographic voting age population minority majority We agreed that would remain the same. The settlement founded by Mendoza was located in what is today the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, south of the city center. In 1912, the practice of basketball in Argentina was started by the Asociacin Cristiana de Jvenes (YMCA) of Buenos Aires,[246] when Canadian Professor Paul Phillip was in charge of teaching basketball at the YMCA of Paseo Coln Avenue. Councilmember Jesse Moreno is a lifelong resident of District 2, where he was elected to serve in June 2021. [226] Nevertheless, the city remains an important regional fashion capital. Buenos Aires managed to endure the whole Spanish American wars of independence without falling again under royalist rule. The first would elevate a large segment of the San Martn Line which runs through the city center and electrify the line, while the second would see the electrification and extension of the Belgrano Sur Line to Constitucion station in the city center. District 3 Kshama Sawant. Toll motorways opened in the late 1970s by mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore, now used by over a million vehicles daily, provide convenient access to the city center. You can also view these individual council district maps, which reflect the 2021 redistricting process using Census 2020 data. Other important colonial institutions were Cabildo, to the west, which was renovated during the construction of Avenida de Mayo and Julio A. Roca. The March 1976 coup, led by General Jorge Videla, only escalated this conflict; the "Dirty War" resulted in 30,000 desaparecidos (people kidnapped and killed by the military during the years of the junta). Most recently, Buenos Aires had a venue in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship and in the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, hosted the 125th IOC Session in 2013, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics[17] and the 2018 G20 summit. The first line, opened on 31 May 2011, runs across the Juan B. Justo Ave has 21 stations. [50] In January 2022, a heatwave caused power grid failure in parts of Buenos Aires metropolitan area affecting more than 700,000 households. [115], The city's services sector is diversified and well-developed by international standards, and accounts for 76 percent of its economy (compared to 59% for all of Argentina's). William Carroll is a native of Mobile, Alabama. His expedition was cut short when he was killed during an attack by the native Charra tribe in what is now Uruguay. A 2-meter (7ft)-long modern tramway, the Tranva del Este, opened in 2007 in the Puerto Madero district, using two tramcars on temporary loan. MOBILE, Ala. The Mobile City Council announced that weekly meetings will once again be held in-person beginning March 29th, 2021 Council President Manzie Announces Housing Rehabilitation Initiative A New View for District 2 Launches this Week, July 7th, 2020 Upcoming City Council Committee Meetings. Low-fare limo services, known as remises, are also popular. 23% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. His predecessor, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was elected to the Papacy as Pope Francis on 13 March 2013. All rights reserved (About Us). The city of Buenos Aires was first established as Ciudad de Nuestra Seora Santa Mara del Buen Ayre[2] (literally "City of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds") after Our Lady of Bonaria (Patroness Saint of Sardinia) on 2 February 1536 by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro de Mendoza. William is a graduate of McGill-Toolen Catholic High School. Encouraged by pro-automaker policies that were pursued towards the end of the Pern (1955) and Frondizi administrations (195862) in particular, auto sales nationally grew from an average of 30,000 during the 192057 era to around 250,000 in the 1970s and over 600,000 in 2008. Some music festivals are held in Greater Buenos Aires, like Lollapalooza, which takes place at the Hipdromo de San Isidro in San Isidro. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Early voting both in . [91] Amongst the 61,876 persons who are of indigenous origin, 15.9% are Quechua people, 15.9% are Guaran, 15.5% are Aymara and 11% are Mapuche. The city and a financial consulting company are currently studying four options on the west side of Mobile. [213] A nationalist trend that drew from Argentine traditions, literature and folk music was an important force during the 19th century, including composers Alberto Williams, Julin Aguirre, Arturo Berutti and Felipe Boero. Most major avenues are, however, gridlocked at peak hours. 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