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Political Practice and Urban Design. Notes on the Institutional Life and the Role Played by the Corporation for Urban Improvement, CORMU. 1966-1976

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  • Alfonso Raposo Moyano Universidad Central de Chile
  • Marco Valencia Palacios Universidad Central de Chile
Vol. 19 No. 49 (2004): Precarious Settlements and Urban Processes
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2004.62212

Abstract

This paper approaches the processes of discursive and symbolic production associated to the construction of the urban space. Within this context the practice of urban design developed by CORMU is related to the urban rationalisation of the discipline. In order to achieve this, some general historical characteristics of the rationalisation process of the discipline are briefly stated and then the rise of the Urban design is signalled. Special attention is paid to the rise of the Town Design and its relation to urban projecting within the context of the functional utopia and its city vision. Its context as project practice is analysed, such practice develops from professional technical and cultural interests of the architectural institution and its later development in the processes of urban space, associated to the public sector. The relationship between modernity, design and utopia are complementarily examined, noticing its orientations and tendencies as well as its political functionality. Attention is latter paid to the modernising context and the urban utopia implicit in the political discourse. An attempt is made at grasping the conception of the city at two moments: the city of revolution in liberty and the city of transition to socialism. Finally the post CORMU urbanism and its divergences are considered in an attempt to understand the several tendencies which took its disciplinary structure apart: exo-urbanism, identity urbanism, free urbanism and pro active real estate urbanism.

Author Biographies

Alfonso Raposo Moyano, Universidad Central de Chile

Arquitecto, U de Chile. Dip. Planning Studies U. de Edimburgo. Estudios del Programa de Maestría en Ciencias Sociales Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Chile. Director del Centro de Estudios Arquitectónicos Urbanísticos y del Paisaje. Universidad Central de Chile. Docente en las Escuelas de Arquitectura Universidad Central de Chile, Universidad de Santiago de Chile y Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. Docente Programa de Magister en Urbanismo. Escuela de Postgrado Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Chile

Marco Valencia Palacios, Universidad Central de Chile

Licenciado en Historia. U. de Chile. Licenciado en Sociología. U de Chile. Estudios de Doctorado en Arquitectura. Programa Universidad de Sevilla & Universidad Central. Docente e investigador de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Central de Chile. Docente en las Escuelas de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Santiago y Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.Docente de Programa de Perfeccionamiento Fundamental MINEDUC, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, U. de Chile.

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Raposo Moyano, A., & Valencia Palacios, M. (2004). Political Practice and Urban Design. Notes on the Institutional Life and the Role Played by the Corporation for Urban Improvement, CORMU. 1966-1976. Revista INVI, 19(49). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2004.62212
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