ABSTRACT
The following text is part of an on-going thesis on planning and urban development within the public Faculty of Architecture of Montevideo, Uruguay (MOTDU-FADU-UDELAR) focused on the Neighbourhood Units of Montevideo´s “Director Plan” of 1956. Within this research framework, the most notable and complex unit is “Alto Malvín”: a former vacant area in the eastern part of Montevideo revisited as a testing ground for social housing experiments. This exercise of urban archaeology faces the challenge of inspecting the built environment to develop the planning documents and urban projects related to the area as a guide to elucidate its spatial production and analyse the urban imaginaries deployed by the political authorities in Montevideo during the second half of the twentieth century.
