Santiago de Chile, renovación urbana 1910-2010: como la emergencia de ambientes da cuenta de este siglo

Abstract

Santiago, and particularly its down-town, offers a kaleidoscope of diverse examples of urban renewal. Framing urban renewal in the local context, from its different logics and motivations, it is postulated that there are three periods that account for the implementation of this policy in Chile, revealing different conceptualizations of State intervention in the city: a first period reflects a logic dominated by the desire of urban structuring (1872-1939), a second period is enrolled in a social logic and an answer to housing lack (1966-1976) and a third period is marked by neoliberalism and the logic of re-settlement and landmanagement (1985 -). The text presents the main features of representative types of periods proposed and field results of two case studies examined in the perspective of new ways to look at the city, which focuses on the uses and “ambiance” understood as the sensit ive environment.