Abstract

From a reading, between the lines, of the book Santiago en EURE. Huellas de una metamorfosis metropolitana: 1970/2000, this article reflects on the urban imaginaries of Santiago presented over the last thirty years. Beyond the declared objectives and conceptual frameworks of the authors, it can be noted that aspects of these urban imaginaries filter into and are expressed in each of the selected texts. The analysis focuses on three principal imqginary narratives for the city of Santiago: one that persists and resists over time, the imaginary of city/country, and two others that through their incomplete metamorphosis a re never resolved hy the inhabitants of the city: the imaginary of the integrated city/ fractured city, and the imaginary of the village city/world city.