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During the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth century, the city of Santiago, Chile experienced an important process of transformation in which the city and the urban started to assume socio-economic and discursive prominence. Using evidence gathered from parliamentary and municipal debates, legislative text, the press, scientific literature from the era and business archives this paper shows that the construction of Santiago's sewage system was a phenomenon that condensed the economic, the technical, political and the discursive in the exercise of power and the administration of the public during that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reconstructs the diverse city mappings drawn by some Argentine novels published during the 1880s following the routes, the locations and the connections established by some of their characters. Through this itinerary, the paper shows that this urban cartography is the result of a structure of feeling that legitimates class hegemony by means of reducing and simplifying the complexity of social relations within the modern city.