Browsing by Author "Vergara-Constela C."
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- ItemSocial housing in the coastal municipalities of northern Chile: Subsidiary sustainability and integration in regional urban development (2000-2018)Habitação social nos municípios costeiros do norte do Chile: Sustentabilidade subsidiária e integração no desenvolvimento urbano regional (2000-2018)La vivienda social en los municipios costeros del norte de Chile: Sostenibilidad subsidiaria e integración en el desarrollo urbano regional (2000-2018)(2021) Hidalgo Dattwyler R.; Vergara-Constela C.; González Rodríguez M.; Paulsen-Espinoza Á.; Alvarado Peterson V.© 2021, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.In 2014, Chile committed to promoting sustainable cities through a National Urban Development Policy that sought to align itself with the Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs). After 40 years of subsidized social housing policies, applying sustainable urban development is a challenge in cities with considerable rates of socio-spatial inequality. This research aims to analyze coastal cities, focusing on Arica and Coquimbo-La Serena, which, due to their location, have tended to have significant transformations over the past 20 years. We have used data on health services, housing quality, overcrowding, and Urban Development Standards. The results confirm that water has become an important issue in a context of drought in northern Chile. Subsidized social housing, in addition to being vulnerable in the provision of water, has a questionable structural quality in the face of important climatic events, as well as overcrowded conditions that make them more critical in terms of sustainability. It is concluded that the application of sustainability in urban policies of the 21st century can be a harmonious discourse, but the reality of the coastal communes is far from reaching this condition.
- ItemThe conditions of urbanization and the production of nature in Chilean coastal cities. The cases of Valparaíso and CoquimboLas condiciones de la urbanización y la producción de naturaleza en ciudades litorales chilenas. Los casos de Valparaíso y Coquimbo(2022) Hidalgo R.; Vergara-Constela C.; González-Rodríguez M.© 2022, Revista de Geografia Norte Grande. All rights reserved.Through a general descriptive method (documentary analysis, population and housing statistics, and observation), this article analyzes the urbanization process and its relationship with nature in Chilean coastal cities, using as case studies the coastal communes of Coquimbo and Valparaíso. Through a conceptual framework associated with the Marxist-urban paradigm of the production of space, both communes are characterized and analyzed, accounting for the forms that the relationship has acquired between the built environment and nature, focusing mainly on the role of housing and, specifically, of subsidized housing. It concludes by demonstrating the contradictory urbanization process in which both communes are found.