From a short trip across histories of shantytowns and urban movements the interest of this ethnography is to request for the ways of production and dispute of public space and urban identities, and for the desires and imaginaries that sublie them.



We search for some clues that allow responding the question about the dimensions in which the urban conflict is built at Santiago city. The visual lecture of old and new actors of the public sphere in Santiago will be the way to discover the production clues of the conflict in the current city.



From conceptual frames and photographies that form part of the ethnographic exercise, we look at the social, political and cultural dimensions of this process; for in this way comprehend how to return its forms to a urban culture that is diluting, declining in segregation, conflicts, in the fear to the other and the abandon of the urban desire.