The imaginary ones, understood like sociocultural constructions that they represent and they transmit ideas and beliefs of the societies through time, took in the Province of Dims during second the local half of century XIX tie characteristics to the modernising pretensions of the authorities and elites. Through the memories of the provincial Intendants and the local press we looked for to verify that imaginary urban the there present ones, based on the progress, the order and the security; they would have helped to form an ideal model of civilized” and controlled city as much “, visible in his physical aspect as in the conducts of his inhabitants. This model, would be simultaneously a strategy to direct the collective behaviors towards a moral based on the discipline, the work and obedience, waited for virtues of a “good citizen” and in agreement with the pretensions of economic growth.
Keywords:
Imaginary urban, modernization, social control, social history, local history
León León, M. A. (2010). Urban imaginaries in the province of Ñuble, Chile (1848-1900). Cuadernos De Historia, (33), Pág. 85–108. Retrieved from https://revistatrabajo.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/30796
