The establishment of Chilean Urban Law from XIX Century: from Urban Legislation to Integrated Urban Law

Abstract

This research aims to determine how has emerged and developed the Urban Law in Chile, based on a set of the rules and institutions that give a special appearance that distinguish the common law and the techniques from the administrative police intervention. The main thesis is that this phenomenon occurs as a result of social and economic changes experienced in the second half of the nineteenth century, to form an integrated system from 1929. So the author distinguishes between incidental urban regulations and urban regulation in the proper sense, whether in wide and strict sense, explaining the origin, development and current sense of the Chilean Urban Law.