Verticalización y precarización del habitar. El caso de la comuna La Florida, Santiago de Chile.

Abstract

Verticalization is a characteristic process of metropolitan areas. This work understands and analyzes the causes and changes experienced in this process in the Commune of La Florida, a municipality located on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile. Based on the processing and study of building permits between 2005 and 2018, discussion and critical analysis of the Communal Regulatory Plan, a review of the institutional role of the Municipality with its different urban guidelines, the role played by road and transport infrastructure, complemented by a general discussion of the regulatory framework. There is a spectacular increase in the verticalization process, which has gone hand in hand with weak regulations and sustained all of the above with the development of infrastructure emanating from the State that has been capitalized by the real estate sector for urban profit, thus promoting a uncontrolled high-rise real estate development that jeopardizes the sustainability of the commune and therefore part of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Santiago

Verticalization

Urban Planning

Land Market

Urban Renewal