Tecnología y modernización: evolución del transporte urbano en Valparaíso. 1850 - 1950

the evolution of urban transport through a century in one of thecities with greatest technological transformations due to its port status closely linkedto international trade is analyzed. this position facilitates the incorporation ofmajor technological advances which are also part of the infrastructure that the cityneeds to carry out its economic activity in its external dimension. indeed, theintroduction of electricity in urban transport is an expression of a modernizationprocess driven by the incorporation of such energy mode of the urban activity invalparaíso. at the same time is brought to notice the geographic and socialdifferences that present the city and its link to the access to transport, and thereforethe process of modernization.