Installing the City of Consumption: The Urban Palimpsest of the First Chilean Shopping Center in Fundo San Luis, Santiago

Authors

  • Rosa-Liliana De Simone Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/s0250-71612018000300091

Keywords:

consumption, urban planning, urban history

Abstract

Analogous to a historical palimpsest, urban and economic policies leave footprints in cities and build discourses about urban imaginaries. Built on the ex San Luis Estate between 1979 and 1982, Parque Arauco Shopping Center was promoted as an accomplished promise of the economic progress brought by a new government, and as a model for a suburban lifestyle inspired by mass consumption and motorization. Parque AraucoÍ€™s significance in urban history holds relation with the discursive articulation of its imaginaries about modernity, its polemic installation in ideologically polarized times, and its localization in a site that was loaded with previous projects. The installment process of Parque Arauco can be studied as a symbolic act, which proclaimed and materialized the ideological turn in a city that is now defined by consumption as a productive force of urban space.

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Published

2018-09-02

How to Cite

De Simone, R.-L. (2018). Installing the City of Consumption: The Urban Palimpsest of the First Chilean Shopping Center in Fundo San Luis, Santiago. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 44(133). https://doi.org/10.4067/s0250-71612018000300091

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 133 (2018)

Section

Dossier: La economía en la configuración urbana

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