The urban context of Santiago: public space at the end of the Colonial Period

Public space, a place supposedly meant for both meeting and participation, has changed through the history of the city. How has it been transformed in Santiago de Chile? To answer this question, we must first ask ourselves how this place was experienced in the past. The next article, result of the first part of our doctoral research, addresses the generation of the notion of public space at the end of the Colonial period in old downtown Santiago. Adopting a perspective based on the dynamics of its concrete subjective experiences, we have worked with several documental sources of the time related to this subject.