Historic Centers: The Authentic DNA of Cities
Cities will not stop changing as long as they exist : they expand, concentrate, develop density and empty themselves. It is in their founding centre where the genes of their true identity can be found. Even when all western historical centres share some architectonic and urban characteristics, indep...
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oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-619242020-03-04T14:51:51Z Historic Centers: The Authentic DNA of Cities Centros históricos: el auténtico ADN de las ciudades Sahady Villanueva, Antonio Gallardo Gastelo, Felipe Cities will not stop changing as long as they exist : they expand, concentrate, develop density and empty themselves. It is in their founding centre where the genes of their true identity can be found. Even when all western historical centres share some architectonic and urban characteristics, independently from their geographical co-ordinates, each one has a set of essential marks that make them unique and unrepeatable. It is true that all Latin American cities have a common pattern established by the Spanish conquerors but they slowly moved towards specific models that allow us to tell them apart. Thus, Quito is clearly different from La Havana and Bahía is unlike Lima. Santiago, on the other hand, still keeps some of the characteristics that in its era of splendour – at the end of the 19th century- gave some degree of unity to its historical centre. Threats are multiple today, in times when globalisation is starting to set a anonymous and universal mark . The mission, for those who are responsible for modifying cities – and thus influence the historical centres- is to defend their original traces which are, in the end, their true DNA. La ciudad no dejará de mutar mientras exista: se expande, se concentra, se densifica, se vacía. Pero es en el centro fundacional donde se pueden advertir los genes de su verdadera identidad. Aun cuando todos los centros históricos occidentales coinciden en ciertos rasgos arquitectónicos y urbanos, independiente de sus coordenadas geográficas, cada uno de ellos carga con un conjunto de huellas esenciales que los hace únicos e irreproducibles. Cierto es que todas las trazas primitivas de las ciudades latinoamericanas arrancan del patrón común que imponen los colonizadores, pero paulatinamente van derivando hacia modelos particulares que terminan por hacerlas perfectamente identificables unas de otras. Así, Quito es claramente diferente a La Habana y Bahía guarda una gran distancia con Lima. Santiago, por su parte, todavía preserva algunos de los atributos que, en su esplendor -a finales del siglo XIX-, otorgaron a su centro histórico algún grado de unidad. Hoy día las amenazas son múltiples, en tiempos en que la globalización procura sentar una marca anónima y universal. La misión de los profesionales responsables de modificar la ciudad –y de incidir en el centro histórico, por lo tanto- es defender sus vestigios originales, que son los que constituyen en definitiva, su verdadero ADN. Revista INVI 2004-08-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/61924 Revista INVI; Vol. 19 Núm. 51 (2004): Conservación de Centros Vivos o Históricos 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/61924/65566 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/61924/66256 |
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Cities will not stop changing as long as they exist : they expand, concentrate, develop density and empty themselves. It is in their founding centre where the genes of their true identity can be found. Even when all western historical centres share some architectonic and urban characteristics, independently from their geographical co-ordinates, each one has a set of essential marks that make them unique and unrepeatable. It is true that all Latin American cities have a common pattern established by the Spanish conquerors but they slowly moved towards specific models that allow us to tell them apart. Thus, Quito is clearly different from La Havana and Bahía is unlike Lima. Santiago, on the other hand, still keeps some of the characteristics that in its era of splendour – at the end of the 19th century- gave some degree of unity to its historical centre. Threats are multiple today, in times when globalisation is starting to set a anonymous and universal mark . The mission, for those who are responsible for modifying cities – and thus influence the historical centres- is to defend their original traces which are, in the end, their true DNA. |
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