Cities
According to the legislation of Buenos Aires, the status of city should be declared by law. The town must have a minimal population and a determinated infrastructure.
The partido has six cities.
| City | Province law | Promulgated on |
|---|---|---|
| Merlo | 5830 | August 19, 1955 |
| San Antonio de Padua | 8212 | September 11, 1974 |
| Parque San Martín | 8558 | December 4, 1975 |
| Libertad | 10052 | October 14, 1983 |
| Mariano Acosta | 10208 | October 18, 1984 |
| Pontevedra | 11135 | October 9, 1991 |
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: “Here,” he said, “are the walls of the city,” meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)