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Revista de Arquitectura accepted for inclusion in SciELO Chile collection

 

 

Villa San Luis de Las Condes :place of remembrance and forgetfulness

Authors

  • María Chiara B. Historiadora italiana
  • Claudio Pulgar P. Arquitecto chileno, académico del Instituto de la Vivienda de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile

Abstract

«Villa San Luis de Las Condes» stands as a physical reminder of a past in which the city was thought of as a place of integration among the different sections of society. Its history symbolizes the path of a city that forgets to move on, towards «modernity».

Keywords:

Urban social integration, Memory, Modernity, Popular unity, Low income housing