La utópica “manhattanización” de Cabo-Llanos en Santa Cruz de Tenerife para el siglo XXI

Abstract

Our aim with this paper is to publish the urban reality of Cabo-LLanos over the last two centuries. Since the middle of the last one the borough council has tried to turn this district into the new “city” by proposing many differents architectural and urban projects and plans. There were interesting ideas about it at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the new one. In fact, many buildings done by world-renowned architects are trying to place at the same level Santa Cruz and the big European cities. Nevertheless, many of these projects have not actually been done and the illusion of turning Cabo-Llanos into the “Big Apple” is lost, nowadays it is just pure utopia.