La renovación urbana como reflejo de distintas conceptualizaciones del espacio: Santiago Centro: más de un Siglo de Políticas de Renovación Urbana

Abstract

Urban renewal is a field of study that has gained importance in a context of growing urbanization worldwide that reached 53% in 2013 (World Bank). In this perspective, studying it is interesting to understand spaces once renovated and to assume the challenge posed by the renewal in a context of urban population growth. Periods of urban renewal are proposed for the case of Santiago de Chile, which seeks to define and understand the differences and similarities between initiatives addressing this urban dynamic. Three periods are proposed for the historical application of urban renewal policies in Santiago: a first period that responds to a logic dominated by the aims to structure the city (1872-1939); a second period that responds to a dominant logic of housing shortages (1965-1976) and a third period conditioned by neoliberalism and the logic of re-settlement and land management (1985-present).