Urban morphologies of the informal city: spatial logics and patterns in Chilean metropolitan areas
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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2024.219.12Keywords:
Urban morphology, Social production of habitat, Informal settlement, Urban informality, ChileAbstract
The social production of the habitat generates morphological conditions that follow an incremental, adaptive, and micro-scale logic. Classifying, understanding, and analysing the urban morphology of informal settlements is key to understanding how informal production operates in cities of the Global South. Through a categorization of urban morphology that includes formal and informal mixes, spatial patterns of informal urbanization in six metropolitan areas in Chile are mapped and analysed: Greater Iquique, Antofagasta, Greater Valparaíso, Santiago, Greater Concepción and Temuco. The research advances in revealing the logics and spatial patterns of spontaneous urbanization, demonstrating that informal production plays an important role in the current urbanization processes of Chilean cities. Social housing areas represent the dominant morphological pattern, which has emerged through incremental additions and accretions. This presents a complex intersection between neo-liberal housing policies and habitat transformation through informal practices.
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