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ARQ 118: Collectivity + New Media / Colectividad + Nuevos Medios 

From smoke signals to the printing press, from telephones to television, the historical function of media has been to connect as many distant points or people as possible. Marshall McLuhan, one of the first theorists to analyze their impact, envisioned that this technical connection would lead to social interconnection in his famous “global village.” Yet McLuhan’s era was one of mass media, where a handful of messages were broadcast to a wide audience. Today, in a media landscape where anyone can produce and disseminate highly individualized content to millions of people simultaneously, the idea of an interconnected community is challenged by echo chambers, deepfakes, and the fragmentation of opinions on social networks. Against this backdrop, this issue’s open call asked: how do media impact the discourses and contemporary production of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design?

Un siglo de planificación urbano-regional en Chile

Although often treated as separate, the processes of urban-regional planning and administrative decentralization have intersected at key moments in Chilean history. Institutions, reforms, and even changes in the structure and nature of governments have played significant roles in shaping the dual narrative that has defined the country’s political and territorial organization. This book examines the development of these processes between 1925 and 2014, with a particular focus on their points of intersection —or lack thereof.