El Estado como agente de la expansión del suelo urbano: Santiago, siglo XIX

Abstract

The State seems to have no control over the land market, since this would depend on the ‘invisible hand’ that regulates transactions between private agents. Analyzing two cases in Santiago in the 19th century, this text shows us, however, that it has not always been this way: through the creation of public parks the State did operate as a developer, encouraging an urban expansion that –for our current mindset– it should only regulate.