The urban landscape as a new postcard of Chile: the cities of Santiago, Valparaiso and Osorno, 1930-1960

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of architecture dissemination, specifically from what tourism magazines attempted to advertise as urban destinations in 1930-1960, in line with the great reforms conducted in main Chilean cities. For this purpose, a comparison is made between what the projects essentially sought to generate -through a civic and representative architecture- and the touristic conception that promoted them as destinations based on the new urban landscapes that made them up.