Urbanismo epidémico. La medicalización de la vida urbana en Montevideo en el primer tercio del siglo XX

Abstract

The consolidation of the modern Uruguayan state is largely dueto the establishment of medical knowledge as a progressive element of social order. In the first decades of the 20th century, health was positioned as an absolute value and this had repercussions in all areas of social and urban life. As a result, plans, regulations, competitions and interventions respondednot onlyto the hygienist paradigm extended throughout the second half of the 19th century as a form of urban improvement, but also as a tool forestablishinga new social order. The role of the state, public spaces and the architectural profession require reflections that lead tonew urban planning –and that go beyond the professional absolutism of hygienism–

Keywords

• hygienism
• modernisation
• batllismo
• uruguay