Frei Montalva promoted the "Operacion Sitio" program and Villa La Reina by Fernando Castillo Velasco is an exemplary case of it. Given scarcity, the people got only what they could not obtain by themselves: urban design ...

Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) established by urban planning, are common containment strategies to prevent urban sprawl. We analyze the effectiveness of the UGB strategy in the case of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago ...

Between 1950 and 1980, many intermediate and minor cities underwent similar phenomena to those experienced by large metropolises, such as accelerated population growth, urban plan expansion, land markets and the adoption ...

We analyse a half-century of Chilean urban reforms to explain the introduction of a system of urban accumulation by dispossession of public resources and opportunities. Three stages have been conceptualised in the imposition ...

© EURE.A comprehensive characterization of urban renewal policies based on the analysis of the original texts, is proposed for the case of Santiago de Chile. The existences of three types of urban renewal policies that are ...

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Urbanization destroys and fragments natural habitats, resulting in a system of natural remnants embedded in an urban matrix. Urban natural remnants (UNRs) can provide multiple ecosystem services for ...