Inhabited Bodies, Modelled Spaces: The Case Of The Steel Mill Huachipato, 1940 -1970

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to understand, from a socio-historical
perspective, the scope of the industrialization model in the
area of ‘Greater Concepción’ – Chile during the mid-twentieth
century, through the discussion of spatial design and urban
location of houses built for Huachipato Steel company’ workers,
established in the area in the late 1940s. We state that the
process of urban development reveals a new way to structure
and inhabit the territory performed by historical and social actors
of the region.

We aim to reveal how hegemonic family systems and their expression
in shaping bodies and living spaces become functional
to the particularities of the development model, both in
an urban and productive scale. It requires a top-down intervention
from macroeconomic policies to particular forms of
intervening and modeling private spaces that make up neighborhood
and housing.

Keywords: Industrialization, Urban Space, Body Modeling,
Social Control.