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The urbanization of the south periphery of Santiago, Chile, 1890 - 1930: industry, railways and housing

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2022.68946

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The urbanization to the south of Santiago, carried out between 1890 and 1930, represents a particular case of the history of the outskirts of the capital, as it became the main industrial neighborhood of the city at the time. This area was associated with complex habitability conditions, produced by negative externalities typical of the manufacturing world, as well as by the coexistence with the greatest sewer of the southern zone, the Zanjón de la Aguada. In this context, we postulate that this urban growth was marked by three axes: the location of the city's Slaughterhouse, the extension of the Ferrocarril de Circunvalación (FFCC) and its coexistence with working class neighborhoods. Through official sources, the press, cartographic and iconographic images, this urban growth will be investigated, observing a problem made up of various scales and in which different protagonists intervened. One of the conclusions of this article is that the development of these three elements marked that urban landscape, defining the ways of living of its population and the expansion of Santiago.

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Periphery, urban development, industry, railways infrastructure, housing, Zanjón de la Aguada

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Castillo Fernández, S., Mardones Peñaloza, M., & Vila Muga, W. (2022). The urbanization of the south periphery of Santiago, Chile, 1890 - 1930: industry, railways and housing. Revista Historia Y Patrimonio, 1(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.5354/2810-6245.2022.68946
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Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Universidad de Chile
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