1st Edition

Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America The Case of Santiago

Edited By Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich Copyright 2018
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society. Chicago economist Milton Friedman was heavily involved in developing this model, and... Read more

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Acknowledgements





Forewords Neoliberalims and Santiago between Fabula and Delirium



Camillo Boano and Francisco Vergara Perucich





Chapter 1 Foucault and Agamben in Santiago: governmentality, dispositive and space



Camillo Boano





Chapter 2 The neoliberal urban utopia of Milton Friedman: Santiago de Chile as its realisation



Francisco Vergara Perucich





Chapter 3 Space production and social exclusion in Greater Santiago under



dictatorship and democracy



Matias Garreton





Chapter 4 The politico-economic sides of Santiago gentrification



Ernesto López-Morales





Chapter 5 Urban Universalism: the housing debt in the context of targeted policies



Camila Cociña





Chapter 6 The mobility regime in Santiago and possibilities of change



Nicolás Valenzuela Levi





Chapter 7 Retail urbanism: the neoliberalization of urban society by consumption in Santiago de Chile



Rosa Liliana De Simone





Chapter 8 Under the politics of deactivation: Culture’s social function in neoliberal Santiago



Francisco J. Díaz





Chapter 9 Transparent processes of urban production in Chile: a case in Pedro Aguirre Cerda District



José Abásolo, Nicolás Verdejo, Félix Reigada (ariztiaLAB)





Chapter 10 Artists self-organization on the context of unregulated transformations in territories, and communities



Fernando Portal



Chapter 11 Building the Democratic city: a challenge for social movements



Valentina Saavedra, Karen Pradenas, Patricia Kelly, Pascal Volker





Chapter 12 ESPECULOPOLIS, a play in Seven acts. A Story of Celebrations, Displacements, Schizophrenia, Utopias, Colonization and Hangover



Eduardo Pérez, Ignac

Biography

Camillo Boano, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, and Co-director of the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development and the UCL Urban Laboratory, UK.



Francisco Vergara-Perucich is an Architect and Urbanist by Universidad Central de Chile and PhD Candidate by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. Currently, he is a lecturer at Economics Department of Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile.