A la distancia: un paradigma de la modernidad porfiriana. La transformación urbanoarquitectónica de Mérida la de Yucatán al cambio de siglo XIX XX

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century, in Yucatan region, everything was done for the entrance of the yearning way to modernity. The region was at peace during the time Merida was reconstructed, not just as the capital of the State but also as the most important city of the region; it consolidated its commercial and service vocation taking into account the finances prosperity. The change of the image as the old and new needs’ satisfaction were the objectives to achieve having as a model the European city and the positivism ideals, which characterized the president Diaz’s government. So, the goals achieved, it was organized a media event, in which the city was the focus and the world the spectator. Growth and urban development, big buildings and monuments, beauty and sanity, new and renewed houses, as well as the offer of services defined the city in this temporal impasse.

Keywords

• porfirism
• urban development; 19th century
• yucatan
• modernity