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Bicentenary: an opportunity to rethink urban housing policies in Chile

Authors

  • Rubén Sepúlveda Ocampo Universidad de Chile
  • Jorge Larenas Salas Universidad de Chile
  • Vanessa Prado Barroso Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Bárbara Prat Waldron Universidad de Chile
  • Jun Álvarez González Universidad de Chile
Vol. 24 No. 67 (2009): Housing and the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Chile and Latin America

Abstract

Different countries of the Region are developing a series of projects to celebrate the Bicentenary. In a context of competition for visibility, these plans are intended to promote country image by taking into account the concepts of globalization and neoliberalism. In the case of Chile, initiatives are more focused on the future than the past of the nation. It is a turning point for Chilean urban policies, where Ciudad Parque Bicentenario, through the combination of basic concepts of quantity, quality and integration, is an example of this forward-looking approach expressed on housing-urban affairs. With a major role of the State, Chile has gradually consolidated a housing policy and reduced the quantitative housing deficit. However, this policy had serious urban and social consequences; sociospatial segregation is one of them. The solution to these problems is, then, a task of the new policies. The "I Love My Neighbourhood" programme (PQMB by its initials in Spanish) is composed by elements that may coincide to those of fourth generation policies, namely, participation, integration and systematicity. This initiative represents an important turning point in first, second and third generation policies; which were thought to address the construction of housing units, urbanization and regularization respectively.

Author Biographies

Rubén Sepúlveda Ocampo, Universidad de Chile

Architect. Doctoral Student Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto de la Vivienda Academic, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.

Jorge Larenas Salas, Universidad de Chile

Sociology Graduate, DAS in Applied Sciences Universidad Católica de tovaina, DAS in Sociology Universidad Católica de tovaina. Doctoral Candidate, Universidad Católica de Lovaina, Belgium. Instituto de la Vivienda Academic, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.

Vanessa Prado Barroso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Architect-Urbanist,MasterStudentinUrbanDevelopment IEUT Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Bárbara Prat Waldron, Universidad de Chile

Architect, Doctoral Student Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto de la Vivienda Academic, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.

Jun Álvarez González, Universidad de Chile

Social Anthropology Graduate, Universidad de Chile. Intern at Instituto de la Vivienda, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.

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Sepúlveda Ocampo, R., Larenas Salas, J., Prado Barroso, V., Prat Waldron, B., & Álvarez González, J. (2010). Bicentenary: an opportunity to rethink urban housing policies in Chile. Revista INVI, 24(67). Retrieved from https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62304
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