Though the relationship among urban planning, territory and biopolitics in its most general characteristics has already been studied, this paper focuses on how these strategies became consolidated in Buenos Aires since the last quarter of the XIX century through some institutions that, within the context of epidemic outbreaks, operated differently on different groups and social sectors in relation to the urban environment, domestic spaces and people.
En el presente artículo interesa focalizar en cómo dichas estrategias comenzaron a consolidarse en la ciudad de Buenos Aires a partir del último cuarto del siglo XIX a través de todas las instituciones que, en el contexto de las epidemias, operaron sobre los diferentes grupos y sectores sociales en el medio urbano, en los espacios domésticos y los cuerpos, de manera diferenciada.