1st Edition
Urban Design Under Neoliberalism Theorising from Santiago, Chile
By Francisco Vergara Perucich
Copyright 2019
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
170 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current and pervasive neoliberal regime. The main argument is that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. In this transformation, it has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos – designing good cities – aligning its theory and practice with the sole... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Discussing urban design and neoliberalism in Santiago
3 Spatial dialectics of Santiago’s urban land
4 Neoliberal transformation of urban space in Santiago
5 The practice of urban design in a neoliberal Santiago
6 Towards a theory of urban design under neoliberalism design
Biography
Francisco Vergara Perucich is an urbanist at Universidad Central de Chile and Doctor in Development and Planning at University College London. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Las Américas, Chile, where he conducts research on neoliberal urbanisms and informal settlements in Latin America.
