The earthquake and tsunami of 1868, on the coast of the South Pacific caused the disappearance of the city of Arica in Peruvian territory. Faced with this situation, the government of President José Balta decrees a policy plan for the reconstruction and reactivation of the city due to its geopolitical importance for the traffic of goods from southern Peru and Bolivia. The project is entrusted to the French office Eiffel et Cie, which traces an industrial project, the proposal for a modern regular layout burst with the dense irregular layout of the pre-existing city, this also included the new steam mobility systems of the Railway era and Port. A historical reconstructive method is applied, some results of the tools are exposed: mapping, interviews, photographic observation sheets, planimetric and aero-photogrammetric surveys. As a result, a spatial theoretical interpretation is obtained...

El presente estudio, reconstruye e interpreta, como se dio el crecimiento de la forma de la ciudad de Arica durante el período del Puerto Libre y la Junta de Adelanto (1953-1976), identificando la prolífera industria de piezas urbanas, la construcción de sus entornos y su relación con la ciudad, entre otros, su ubicación en el desarrollo y crecimiento, clarificando el proyecto de ciudad moderna, desde las concepciones de pieza urbana. Se utilizó una metodología analítica, reconstructiva, tanto por el crecimiento sostenido de la ciudad que, en 1952, con 20.000 habitantes en una superficie urbana de 125,02 hectáreas, distribuidas en 143 manzanas, paso en 1970 a tener una población de 87.800 habitantes, en una superficie urbana de 767,65 hectáreas, distribuidas en 1.198 manzanas, estamos hablando de solo 18 años. Esto sucedió en parte, debido a las políticas de desarrollo espe...

The earthquake and tsunami of 1868, on the coast of the South Pacific caused the disappearance of the city of Arica in Peruvian territory. Faced with this situation, the government of President José Balta decrees a policy plan for the reconstruction and reactivation of the city due to its geopolitical importance for the traffic of goods from southern Peru and Bolivia. The project is entrusted to the French office Eiffel et Cie, which traces an industrial project, the proposal for a modern regular layout burst with the dense irregular layout of the pre-existing city, this also included the new steam mobility systems of the Railway era and Port. A historical reconstructive method is applied, some results of the tools are exposed: mapping, interviews, photographic observation sheets, planimetric and aero-photogrammetric surveys. As a result, a spatial theoretical interpretation is obtained...