The price for a right to the city facing the rise of urban slums in Chile

Abstract:

This article offers an exploratory analysis about the relationship between the price of housing and an increase in the number of urban slums in Chile. Based on Henri Lefebvre's right to the city idea, the article draws on official data to conceptualize the obstacles posed by the high costs of urban life to materialize the desire of a democratic city for all. At the same time, it highlights the expansion of urban slums as a resistance and self-production process linked with the basic principles sustained in the original right to the city text. The aim is to inform the right to the city agenda in the actual neoliberal context of Chilean cities, where urban life has a cost that few can pay and which is clearly reflected in space.

Año de publicación:

2019

Keywords:

• INEQUALITY
• informality
• Antofagasta
• HOUSING

Fuente:

scopus