Controversies in the ways of inhabiting towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The plan for workers' housing of the Mayor Revol in Córdoba

Abstract

The article analyzes how public policy around housing becomes a vector of hygienist ideas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The implementation of these policies found their justification in the problematization of certain diseases and the existence of the ranch, expanding a series of prophylactic and moralizing measures. The form of habitat was considered dangerous for the development of the population, and, therefore, had to be fought with modifications in the type of housing construction and in the habitability. In this framework, the Mayor of the city of Córdoba Luis Revol implemented the First Workers' Housing Plan for working families in Pueblo Nuevo (an area in the current Güemes neighborhood). The methodological strategy is qualitative based on the documentary analysis and the information obtained from oral memory workshops. Additionally, primary sources were considered, such as the speeches of public officials and influential personalities from the medical elite and close to the Catholic Church, municipal bylaws and documents referring to urban planning of the period. The result of the analysis seeks to understand the link-up between housing policy and Hygiene in the period 1880-1930.