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    Resilience and co-production: Conserving modern housing in Chile
    (Taylor and Francis, 2021) Torrent H.
    © of the edition, docomomo International © of the images, their authors and © of the texts, their authors.Modern mass housing complexes have been incorporated to a process of valorization that aims for its permanence. For some time now, the inhabitants of these housing complexes have requested their declaration as monuments to protect them against the threat of real estate business. In most cases - if not all of them - the declaration came at the request of the community, organized with the objective of protecting them in face of the possibility of their disappearance. The status of zona típica allows only keeping the housing complexes safe from the speculative process of urban land. Instead, the organization of residents within the projects has proved successful in obtaining help to actively preserve not only the buildings but also their public spaces with strategies of adaptive re-use of the land, as did the project of restoration of the elevated streets and bridges of Villa Frei, or the “Quiero mi Barrio” plan applied in Villa Portales and the community organization to improve the public spaces of Lastarria and Ex-Estadio housing in Arica. This paper aims to review the architectural and urban values of the complexes and the processes between different actors, including the community and the public realm, sharing resources and power during the last ten years, strategies of co-production, conservation and resilience have been able to achieve, preserve and value the legacy of modern housing architecture in Chile during the last ten years.