ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a number of interventions carried out in some capital cities of the region are selected. It was necessary to reach the end of the twentieth century so that politicians, businessmen and town planners would assume the cultural meaning of the traditional centralities and their importance as an expression of the historic social memory, whose bequest should last for future generations. The balance between community use of public space and the expression of aesthetic values in architectural and urbanity attributes was one of the basic characteristics of the colonial city, which lasted up until the nineteenth century. The eruption of modernity went hand in hand with questioning the historic inheritance and the proposal of an urban typology. It based on the 'redents' block system and Cartesian tower blocks designed by Le Corbusier, submerged in large open spaces for the recreational and leisure use of the community at large.
