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    La Casa de la Temperancia en Cuenca. Control de las poblaciones marginales en la ciudad moderna. 1850 y 1930
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2025-02-12) Berrezueta Orellana, Nathaly Yadira; Padilla Quezada, María Paula; Kennedy Troya, María Alexandra
    The document explores the evolution of Cuenca between the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighting how modernization transformed its economic, social, political and cultural dynamics. During this period, activities of great economic return, such as the exploitation of husk and the production of toquilla straw hats, allowed the creation of welfare infrastructures, one of the faces of the desired progress. However, these advances were not free of challenges and contradictions. On the one hand, modernization brought with it significant urban and economic development, whose demographic growth triggered poor sanitation conditions. Consequently, the policies to solve the problems unleashed reflected profound social inequalities, where the social, religious and political elites continued to exercise significant control over the popular classes through moralization and sanitation strategies. In this context, institutions such as the Casa de la Temperancia in San Sebastián - one of the three shelters for alcoholics in Cuenca in the intercentury period - embodied these tensions and served as a tool for social transformation through the control instituted to collect, lock up and “cure” one of the most serious “vices” of the time. This corresponds to its initial use; those that followed over the years were along the same welfare line and its repercussion is clear in the architectural configuration evidenced in its plans and photographic archives carried out in its restoration project during the 1970s and 1980s. Currently, it is the headquarters of the Municipal Museum of Modern Art (MMAM) and its layout is understood to be linked to this earlier period. In summary, the document presents Cuenca as a city that went through a complex modernization process, leaving traces that are still visible today in its architecture and urban structure.