Abstract
This article aims to summarize the theoretical and methodological grounds of the construction of an urban historicalatlas of Santa Fe, a capital city of a province in Argentina. The Atlas is based in a large and diverse collection ofdocuments which is the product of a long research work. It has been designed as a tool that allows systematizing,representing and interpreting different stages in the formation of the city during its modernization process (1880-1945). The paper offers a critical reading on the cartographic documents in order to draw a new set of maps to depictthe urban growth sequence throughout successive cuts in the time line. It also has the intention of constructing ahomogeneous cartographic database and mapping the various indicators of the level of development of the city foreach historical moment.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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