CHACRAS, TREE-LINED PROMENADES AND VACANT LANDS: Rural Forms of Green in the Urban Modernization of Santiago

The relationship between city and nature - namely between buildings and vegetation - has not always been antagonistic. The fact that modernization processes led to the separation of agricultural and urban functions is the best evidence that the two used to be interwoven. With Santiago as the base case, this article shows how the vegetation was and integral part of the modernization of the Chilean capital, thus expanding the visions that understood this process as a mere imitation of European models.