Urban imaginaries in Gran Santiago: footprints of a metamorphosis

Authors

  • Francisca Márquez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612007000200007

Keywords:

urban development, urban imaginary

Abstract

From a reading, between the lines, of the book Santiago en EURE. Huellas de una metamorfosis metropolitana: 1970/2000, this article reflects on the urban imaginaries of Santiago presented over the last thirty years. Beyond the declared objectives and conceptual frameworks of the authors, it can be noted that aspects of these urban imaginaries filter into and are expressed in each of the selected texts. The analysis focuses on three principal imaginary narratives for the city of Santiago: one that persists and resists over time, the imaginary of city/country, and two others that through their incomplete metamorphosis are never resolved by the inhabitants of the city: the imaginary of the integrated city/fractured city and the imaginary of the village city / world city.

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Published

2007-08-02

How to Cite

Márquez, F. (2007). Urban imaginaries in Gran Santiago: footprints of a metamorphosis. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 33(99). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612007000200007