Modernidad y servicios urbanos

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Urban services reflect the modernization policies implemented in the city, generally linked to the hygienist visions developed from the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the improvement of urban...

Urban services reflect the modernization policies implemented in the city, generally linked to the hygienist visions developed from the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the improvement of urban infrastructures, water, drainage, electricity, public lighting, telegraph, are defining different stages of modernization in cities, the center of economic modernization policies, but despite having an integrating vision, they do not reach the entire population in the same quantity or in the quality demanded. On the other hand, the services of parks, walks and gardens are closely linked to this conception of urban hygiene, which associates them with an improvement in air quality and with the benefits of public walks and afforestation on the health of the inhabitants, as well as the influence on the creation of health services, the control of "harmful" fauna, the sanitary management of merchandise distribution systems; the location of cemeteries; The planning and construction of new hospitals, with modern architectural urban characteristics, allow us to observe the influence of a thought with strong scientific roots and that will obtain different.

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