Urban metabolism: A system of ecological surplus appropiation. The transformation of the patagonic estepa in architectural bourgeois
Keywords:
urban metabolism, bourgeois architecture, metabolic flux, ecological surplusesAbstract
This paper analyzes the city as an appropriation system of ecological surpluses, establishing a relationship between the Patagonian steppe ecosystem and the beautiful bourgeois architecture of the most prosperous Chilean city of nineteenth-century: Punta Arenas.
This special relationship between society and nature, leave deep traces of complexity in Punta Arenas, and it was metabolically connected with territorial forms of exploitation and appropriation of the steppe ecosystem, the huge pampa which extends from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean at the southern extreme of America. The Patagonian “coirón” and the bourgeois architecture, are beginning and end of the same production chain, corresponding to the initial and terminal stages of a social process of appropriation of ecological surpluses. As metabolic flux, the surplus is ecologic in its origin, then social in its evolution.
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