A Company Town in Bahía de Todos Santos by the International Company of Mexico (1886) and the Mexican Land and Colonization Company (1889), city of Ensenada [Baja California] Mexico

Abstract

This article focuses on how a territorial concession of the late nineteenth century to foreign capital implements a magnificent and modern urban project in Baja California, unique in its type for the occupation of the Northwest region of Mexico. The text presents the urban history of the population of Ensenada and how the North American and British capitalists developed the city. We try to verify the urban reaches and architectonic influence that the company’s had in this city at the beginning of the twentieth century, defending the hypothesis that the urban layout responds more to the North American model and that contains a rich number of constructions of the industrial era. The buildings that contain the urban grid could be considered a cultural good to find lines of intervention and heritage opportunities for conservation.