Title: Las ciudades del cobre
First published: 2007
Description: An architectural and urban study of the traditional copper mining towns of Chile. The traditional establishments, today replaced by the mining town and the mining hotel, constitute a unique Chilean architectural and urban patrimony. The book is divided into three parts. First it presents an historical panorama in which the foundations (including architecture) are analyzed and strategies that gave rise to these establishments, examine the territories and review the main moments of the mining of copper in Chile. Part II includes a set of reflections on the establishments as exceptional forms of the urban fact, such as the contribution to the subject of the house and occupation of the territory. And the third part displays in detail the "copper" cities. These include an ample arc of diverse models of industrial establishments, urban forms and joint architectonic complexes, all of them places unique for the test of different formulas from urban design, the development of typologies of house and the incorporation of varied buildings and standards of equipment.
Subjects: Copper, Company towns, Company town architecture, Mines and mining, Copper mines and mining, Asentamientos humanos, Mineros, Viviendas, Minas de cobre, Social aspects, Industrial Architecture, Industrial housing, Design and construction
Places: Chile
LC classification: NA9053.C57 G37 2007