TY - JOUR
T1 - Santiago de Chile through the eyes of jane jacobs. Analysis of the conditions for urban vitality in a latin American metropolis
AU - Fuentes, Luis
AU - Miralles-Guasch, Carme
AU - Truffello, Ricardo
AU - Delclòs-Alió, Xavier
AU - Flores, Mónica
AU - Rodríguez, Sebastián
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, Proyect FONDAP N◦ 15110020, and FONDECYT N◦1190724.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The urban planning ideas proposed by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s remain relevant to this day, promoting a perspective on the relationship between urban morphology and the community that takes into consideration the experiences of the people themselves in the planning of cities. With Jacobs’ ideas in mind, this article seeks to explore the urban territory of Santiago, Chile, and to assess the vitality of its neighborhoods with their diversity of morphological, architectural, and spatial characteristics. The results reveal a spatial reality that differs considerably from typical interpretations of this and other cities across Latin America, characterized by a strong radial center–periphery dynamic interspersed with sub-centers of high vitality, mainly in the form of rural towns and villages that, over time, became absorbed into the urban fabric of Santiago, along with social housing estates located on what used to be the urban periphery.
AB - The urban planning ideas proposed by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s remain relevant to this day, promoting a perspective on the relationship between urban morphology and the community that takes into consideration the experiences of the people themselves in the planning of cities. With Jacobs’ ideas in mind, this article seeks to explore the urban territory of Santiago, Chile, and to assess the vitality of its neighborhoods with their diversity of morphological, architectural, and spatial characteristics. The results reveal a spatial reality that differs considerably from typical interpretations of this and other cities across Latin America, characterized by a strong radial center–periphery dynamic interspersed with sub-centers of high vitality, mainly in the form of rural towns and villages that, over time, became absorbed into the urban fabric of Santiago, along with social housing estates located on what used to be the urban periphery.
KW - Jane Jacobs
KW - Santiago de Chile
KW - Urban vitality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097529982&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/land9120498
DO - 10.3390/land9120498
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85097529982
SN - 2073-445X
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Land
JF - Land
IS - 12
M1 - 498
ER -