The model of high-rise urban renewal sprawls towards Santiago de Chile’s inner city. This model can be understood as a form of gentrification based on considerable accumulation of the rent gap, while its externalities generate social displacement and physical dilapidation. Notwithstanding, Santiago’s inner city is also a lived space where both needs and capacities of urban regeneration (without displacement) coexist. Focusing on the case of La Victoria población, located in the southern municipality of Pedro Aguirre Cerda (PAC), this article seeks to address the following two topics: historically, the inner city responds to a dialectic of urban social movements and specific spatial production; normatively, as an ongoing research project shows, it is feasible to combine neighbourhood regeneration, urban density increase, and citizen participation. The article substantiates the high complexity of the inner city of Santiago, as well as the feasibility of low-impact, participative alternatives for inner city regeneration.
Keywords:
Inner city, gentrification, urban regeneration, La Victoria, Pedro Aguirre Cerda
López, E., & Ocaranza, M. (2012). La Victoria of Pedro Aguirre Cerda: ideas for an urban renewal without gentrification in Santiago. Revista De Urbanismo, 14(27), Pág. 42–63. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v14i27.26404
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