Lima: Power, Centre and Centrality. From Native Centre to Neoliberal Centre

Authors

  • Wiley Ludeña Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; Universidad Ricardo Palma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612002008300004

Keywords:

urban centres, urban history, urban periphery, urbanization

Abstract

The centre and the idea of centre is a way of practical and ideological construction, that origins and reproduces as an expression of the requests of social, economical, political, cultural and symbolic reproduction of determinate sectors in its experience of producing city. The article offers an overview about the evolution and the transformations of Limas central area, since its pre inca and inca existence, to its later colonial and republican constitution. Ends with a register of the actual situation. The central area is analyzed as in its condition of an specific reality, as its relation with the whole city and the society. The problems are evaluated from the perspective of the economic, political, social, cultural, anthropologic, architectonic and urbanistic meaning.

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Published

2002-05-07

How to Cite

Ludeña, W. (2002). Lima: Power, Centre and Centrality. From Native Centre to Neoliberal Centre. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 28(83). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612002008300004