The aim of this paper is to understand, from a socio-historical perspective, the scope of the industrialization model in the area of 'Greater Concepción' - Chile during the mid-twentieth century, through the discussion of spatial design and urban location of houses built for Huachipato Steel company' workers, established in the area in the late 1940s. We state that the process of urban development reveals a new way to structure and inhabit the territory performed by historical and social actors of the region. We aim to reveal how hegemonic family systems and their expression in shaping bodies and living spaces become functional to the particularities of the development model, both in an urban and productive scale. It requires a top-down intervention from macroeconomic policies to particular forms of intervening and modeling private spaces that make up neighborhood and housing.