La ciudad de México de finales del siglo XVIII: un diagnóstico desde la «ciencia de la policía»

Abstract

The science of the police like government's practical doctrine acquired relevance during the XVIII century and it contributed to restate the territorial organization and the population's control. As well as it leaves of this politics, the reorganization of the urban space was a measure implanted in Madrid, capital of the Empire, after the mutiny of Esquilache and soon it extended to diverse cities of the peninsula and later on to the American cities and in particular to the city of Mexico. As for the capital of the New Spain, in the work some of the reaches of the measure and the state are analyzed by the one that crossed the city according to the diagnosis of two distinguished members of the political elite and practical followers of the police. It is pointed out that the optics of the police has been little explored by the specialists dedicated to the Mexican historiography and that the on measures in practice in Madrid and Paris became a practical model for the officials in charge of looking after the order and physionomy of the city of Mexico.