He attended the prestigious Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, graduating in 1904, and later studied diplomacy and literature at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Sorbonne, in Paris.

The plan envisioned different commercial poles acting as "multiple city centres", with monumental civic buildings and a public park system, and for what would decades later become the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery.

[4] It was, for a time, proposed that the avenue facing the Río de la Plata on the northern side of Buenos Aires be known as "Avenida Intendente Carlos Noel".

He was subject to persecution during the dictatorship of José Félix Uriburu due to his affiliation with the Radical Civic Union, and had to go into exile.

[4] In addition to his preoccupation with urban development, Noel took part in debates on Argentina's foreign policy, especially with neighbouring South American nations.