Abstract:Acting on the existing city -with a goal of structural transformation- requires clear ideas, a consistent strategy of operation and a strong-willed author, plus the consensus of other
participants and institutions. The experience of a Chilean politician over Santiago de Chile in the second half of the 19th Century is a result of such an extraordinary confluence, and it has marked the city’s fate to our days. With the order of the colonial city as a starting point, Vicuña Mackenna visualized a new urban matrix … Show more
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