Water, Horticulture and Urban Planning in an American city. Santiago de Chile in the Colonial Era
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https://doi.org/10.17561/at.v0i5.2533Abstract
This paper mainly aims to study the social uses of water in Santiago de Chile found in the ancient cartography in order to show other elements present in American urbanism that go beyond the checkerboard blueprint and the location of iconic buildings and spaces. We are referring to the network of existing irrigation ditches in Santiago, and in a countless number of American villages and towns, that marked its urban development and played an important role in the production of food through the practice of horticulture.
The sources used in this study consist of 24 cartographic documents printed or drawn between 1713 and 1841, some of which are reproduced here. They comprise 10 general surveys of Santiago and another 14 partial ones of the same city containing information on the location and trajectory of the irrigation ditch networks and to a lesser extent, the practice of horticulture. To strengthen both aspects of the work, we will rely on the descriptions given by travelers and chroniclers of the time.
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