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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Research design -- The virtual object as a hypothesis -- Outline of the book -- 2 Discussing urban design and neoliberalism in Santiago -- Introduction -- Urban designer's ethos -- Spatial dimensions of neoliberalism -- Santiago de Chile and neoliberal urban development -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Spatial dialectics of Santiago's urban land -- Introduction -- The conventillo and the social question: the city as a political arena of spatial contestations -- Scientific urbanism and the masses: private property at stake and the neoliberal revolution of the outraged oligarchy -- From the welfare state to the neoliberal revolution -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Neoliberal transformation of urban space in Santiago -- Introduction -- Free-market political economy in Santiago -- Featuring urban design under neoliberalism -- Social housing under neoliberalism -- Neoliberal real estate and the financial realm -- Costanera Centre: the icon of the neoliberal city -- Contestations against urban design under neoliberalism -- Concluding remarks -- 5 The practice of urban design in a neoliberal Santiago -- Introduction -- The rule of profit in city making -- State, neoliberalism, and urban design -- Profit-oriented urban design -- Challenging urban design practice in Santiago -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Towards a theory of urban design under neoliberalism design -- Introduction -- A definition: urban design under neoliberalism -- The ethical conflict of urban designers under neoliberalism -- Assessing urban design under neoliberalism -- A virtual object for further research: the solidary urban design practice -- Bibliography -- Index.

Hedonic modelling is an empirical analysis technique that is widely used to review the housing market and unpack the main determinants of price. A correct determination of housing price drivers allows a weighted prediction of the value of each dwelling for sale or rent. This paper reviews the fundamental determinants of housing prices that have been published in the literature to see which ones have a better predictive fit for the case of the housing market in the city of Santiago, Chile. From a record of 456,000 property transactions, a dataset composed of 11 explanatory variables is elaborated. Through a semi-logarithmic regression, 4 variables that contribute to explaining the formation of housing prices in Santiago, Chile, are identified. The results indicate that the socioeconomic characterisation of urban areas where housing is traded, the price of copper on the London Metal Exchange, the mortgage interest rate, the age of residential buildings are the main drivers for the main drivers of prices in Santiago. Given the crisis of access to housing in Chile, the article provides relevant information for decision-makers in housing policy.

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This article discusses the experience of creating an overall plan for developing an informal settlement in the Chilean city of Antofagasta. This was accomplished by applying transductive reasoning to a community urban planning practice that aims to advance the community towards achieving the right to the city. By doing so, the article elaborates on insights gathered from the application of transductive reasoning as a method developed by Henri Lefebvre to reflect on the possible futures of cities using a bottom-up approach, thus utilizing the right to the city as a political agenda. Thus, this intervention provides an empirical reflection on the scope of action research in which the ideas of Henri Lefebvre are suitable for transforming utopian thinking into a political agenda for social transformation by a grassroots organization. The conclusions express the critiques of other authors whose approaches to Henri Lefebvre's methods are substantially theoretical, thus wasting its empirical potential and capacity to engage communities.

A critical reflection about Villa San Luis as one of the last examples of social integration projects developed by the urban division of Salvador Allende's government in Chile.

El ensayo presenta una visión crítica ante las carencias de significados que surgen de la experiencia de habitar la "Plaza de la Ciudadanía" de Santiago de Chile, la cual se construye como parte de las conmemoraciones del bicentenario de esta nación. Desde el punto de vista de los espacios públicos contemporáneos, y principalmente de lo que se entiende por ciudadanía hoy, carece de valores espaciales que permitan utilizar dicha plaza de manera democrática. El texto plantea una revisión de referentes internacionales, propone una definición del término "ciudadanía contemporánea", se expone lo que los autores del proyecto buscaron en la plaza para finalizar con un análisis morfológico del lugar, asociando a los conceptos desarrollados en el ensayo. ; ENG: The essay presents a critical view to the shortcomings of meanings that arise from the experience of inhabiting the "Plaza de la ciudadanía" of Santiago de Chile, which is built as part of the bicentennial commemoration. From the point of view of contemporary public spaces and what we mean by citizenship today, it lacks spatial values to use the plaza in a democratic manner. The text presents a review of international examples, proposes a definition of the term "contemporary citizenship", exposes what the authors of the project sought and finally analyzes the place from a morphological way, involving to the concepts developed in the essay. ; Peer Reviewed

El ensayo presenta una visión crítica ante las carencias de significados que surgen de la experiencia de habitar la "Plaza de la Ciudadanía" de Santiago de Chile, la cual se construye como parte de las conmemoraciones del bicentenario de esta nación. Desde el punto de vista de los espacios públicos contemporáneos, y principalmente de lo que se entiende por ciudadanía hoy, carece de valores espaciales que permitan utilizar dicha plaza de manera democrática. El texto plantea una revisión de referentes internacionales, propone una definición del término "ciudadanía contemporánea", se expone lo que los autores del proyecto buscaron en la plaza para finalizar con un análisis morfológico del lugar, asociando a los conceptos desarrollados en el ensayo. ; ENG: The essay presents a critical view to the shortcomings of meanings that arise from the experience of inhabiting the "Plaza de la ciudadanía" of Santiago de Chile, which is built as part of the bicentennial commemoration. From the point of view of contemporary public spaces and what we mean by citizenship today, it lacks spatial values to use the plaza in a democratic manner. The text presents a review of international examples, proposes a definition of the term "contemporary citizenship", exposes what the authors of the project sought and finally analyzes the place from a morphological way, involving to the concepts developed in the essay. ; Peer Reviewed

Acknowledgements -- Forewords neoliberalims and Santiago between fabula and delirium / Camillo Boano and Francisco Vergara Perucich -- Foucault and Agamben in Santiago : governmentality, dispositive and space / Camillo Boano -- The neoliberal urban utopia of Milton Friedman: Santiago de Chile as its realisation / Francisco Vergara Perucich -- Space production and social exclusion in greater Santiago under dictatorship and democracy / Matias Garreton -- The politico-economic sides of Santiago gentrification / Ernesto Lopez-Morales -- Urban universalism : the housing debt in the context of targeted policies / Camila Cociana -- The mobility regime in Santiago and possibilities of change / Nicolas Valenzuela Levi -- Retail urbanism : the neoliberalization of urban society by consumption in Santiago de Chile / Rosa Liliana De Simone -- Under the politics of deactivation : culture's social function in neoliberal Santiago / Francisco J. Diaz -- Transparent processes of urban production in Chile : a case in Pedro Aguirre Cerda district / Jose Abasolo, Nicolas Verdejo, Felix Reigada (ariztiaLAB) -- Artists self-organization on the context of unregulated transformations in territories, and communities / Fernando Portal -- Building the democratic city : a challenge for social movements / Valentina Saavedra, Karen Pradenas, Patricia Kelly, Pascal Volker -- Especulopolis, a play in seven acts. A story of celebrations, displacements, schizophrenia, utopias, colonization and hangover / Eduardo Perez, Ignacio Saavedra, Ignacio Rivas, Mathias Klenner, Leandro Cappetto (Grupo TOMA).

Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl policies partially address only a few determinants of a multifaceted phenomenon. This includes processes of extended suburbanisation, peri-urbanisation and transformation of fringe/belt areas of city-regions. Using as a case study the capital city of Chile—Santiago—thirteen determinants of urban sprawl are identified as interlinked at the point of defining Santiago's sprawling geography as a distinctive space that deserves planning and policy approaches in its own right. Unpacking these determinants and the policy context within which they operate is important to better inform the design and implementation of more comprehensive policy frameworks to manage urban sprawl and its impacts.

This study presents a spatial history of the origins of Santiago's neoliberalisation, unveiling its urban history from the critical point of view of land at the centre of social classes' dispute over city life. It situates the contestation and struggle over land in a genealogical progression from the origins of the disciplinary field of urbanism (1932) to the transformation of its regulatory framework, making it an exclusively profit-oriented practice complementary to processes of wealth creation through urban transformations (1979). As an allegory, we used the Gigantomachy to interpret these struggles. Special emphasis is given to the land struggles that occurred in Santiago as a part of this migratory process and how the contestation of private land became an alternative to the government's incapacities to resolve the urban poor condition. This contestation would lead to the dominant class looking for alternative politics that ensure the defence of their property. This study presents neoliberalism as a response to such a call. Neoliberalism in Santiago was the way to transform the problem of housing scarcity in big business for the dominant class. The study historically outlines this process in what may be considered as the first neoliberal urban policy in the world, depicting the big bang of neoliberal urbanism.

This article proposes a political agenda for a disciplinary trespassing against capitalist rule drawing upon the reasons that worthed a Pritzker award and the curative job in Venice Biennale for Alejandro Aravena. In both cases, the institutions argued that Aravena embodies a social architect with an agenda oriented to aid people living on scarcity. Along the article are revealed the ideological nature of these nominations and it exposes the necessity for emancipating architecture from the subjugation to profitability, capital accumulation, and power's reproduction. The subjugation to capital has destroyed the creative nature of the discipline, triggering a crisis whose release may be tackled through more theory, collective organization, and exploring new modes of production. The article claims for leaving the comfort zone for embracing the radicalism as a possible path toward disciplinary liberation. ; El artículo construye una agenda política de transgresión disciplinar contra el capitalismo a partir de las razones que valieron para Alejandro Aravena un Premio Pritzker y la curatoría de la Bienal de Venecia 2016. En ambos casos, las instituciones patrocinantes han informado que se reconoce el rol de Aravena como arquitecto social con una agenda orientada a ayudar a las personas de escasos recursos. A lo largo del artículo se expone la naturaleza ideológica de estas nominaciones y se expone la necesidad de emancipar la arquitectura de la subyugación a los objetivos de la rentabilidad, acumulación de capital y reproducción de ciclos de poder. Se argumenta que este sometimiento al capital ha destruido la naturaleza creativa de la disciplina generando una crisis cuya salida puede darse con más teorización, organización colectiva y explorando nuevos modos de producción. Se convoca a salir de la zona de confort y abrazar la crítica como un camino posible hacia la liberación disciplinar.

"Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, housing provision and social inequality based on applied urban economics analyses that illustrate the contradictions of neoliberal urbanism through the case of Chile. For neoliberal urbanism, the good city is not equal for all, it is based on the principle of profitability and benefits from segregation to make capital investment more efficient. The chapters of this book expose how these processes are generated by a political system that allows them rather than by the invisible hand of the market. The book will be of interest to graduate students in urban studies, urban planning, sociology and urban geography. It will also appeal to decision-makers and also to actors in the real estate market seeking to perfect the social benefits of their professional activities, aspiring to generate more egalitarian and just cities"--

This article identifies the spatial correlation between the social determinants of health in the housing area (housing prices, overcrowding, poor-quality building materials, and household socioeconomic vulnerability) and the spread of COVID-19 in Santiago de Chile. The research used data from the 2017 Census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics of Chile and data on confirmed cases of COVID-19 (PCR) by communes provided by/obtained from Chile's Ministry of Health. The article provides a two-fold examination/analysis of the spatial correlation using the Pearson measure to observe how the virus spread from areas with high-quality housing in the early stage of the contagion to then become concentrated in areas with low-quality of housing. The second examination/analysis is a multiple linear regression to identify the housing factors that inform virus propagation. The test results show that of the four social determinants of health relating to housing assessed here, housing prices is the variable that best predicts how the social determinants of health based on housing explain the progress of the pandemic for the Santiago case, following the collinearity factors according to the data used in this study. The conclusions suggest that public policy should treat housing quality as a factor in public health and health risks that needs to be addressed with a transdisciplinary approach to urban planning in Chile.