Santiago de Chile: Metropolization, globalization and inequity

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 171-183

  Dockemdorff, Eduardo ^a   Rodríguez, Alfredo ^b   Winchester, Lucy ^c  

^a Sub Secretariat of the Office of the President   (Chile)

^b Chilean NGO SUR   (Chile)

^c Ctro de Estud Sociales y Educacion   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; POVERTY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLITICS;

CHILE;

EID: 1642586731     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624780001200112     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. This is a summary of one of nine city case studies prepared as part of a research programme on Urban Governance, Partnerships and Poverty, funded by the UK Department for International Development's ESCOR programme. This involved research teams in each of these cities and a coalition of UK-based research groups from the University of Birmingham, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the University of Wales, Cardiff, and the London School of Economics. Summaries of other city case studies also feature in this edition of Environment and Urbanization. The full version of this study and other city case studies and also of theme papers may be obtained from the Publications Office, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; tel: (44) 121 414 5020, fax: (44) 121 414 4969 or e-mail to: u.grant@bham.ac.uk. City case studies cost UK, 10 each including postage) but are free to NGOs and teaching institutions in non-OECD countries. Part of this paper is also drawn from Dockemdorff, Eduardo and Alfredo Rodríguez (2000), "Los rostres de Santiago", study undertaken during 1998-1999, Tiempo, Santiago.
2. The 1990-97 growth period according to the Central Bank, 1999.
3. Central Bank Data, 1999.
4. Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo (1990), Santiago Dos Ciudades. Análisis de la estructura socioeconómica espacial del gran Santiago, CED, Santiago, Chile.
5. What has really changed is the speed of the urbanization process. Between 1952 and 1960, while the urban population grew at a rate of 39.8 per 1,000, the population of the country as a whole grew at a rate of 25.3 per 1,000; the difference corresponds to the net rural to urban migration. The findings of the 1992 census show that the importance of migration has decreased to a rate of 1.5 per 1,000.
6. de Mattos, C A (1999), "Globalización y metropolización en Santiago de Chile: una historia de continuidad y cambio", preliminary report, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
7. See reference 6, page 7.
8. Conversation with Pablo Trivelli.
9. See Oviedo, Enrique and Alfredo Rodríguez (1998), "Santiago, una ciudad con temor. Inseguridad ciudadana y pérdida del espacio público", Boletín Temas Sociales 25, SUR, Programa de Pobreza y Politicas Sociales, Santiago.
10. Duff, E and J Mac Cammant (1976), Violence and Repression in Latin America, The Free Press, New York and London.
11. Oviedo, Enrique (1994), "Violencia Urbana, Percepción o realidad: El caso de la ciudad de Santiago" in Ciudad y Violencia. Gestión Urbana Vol 2, Published by the Programa de Gestión Urbana de Naciones Unidas, PGU, Ecuador.
12. The municipality's first and main authority is the mayor, who is its leader and in charge of administration. The mayor holds a four-year term of office and can be re-elected. The council candidate who obtains at least 35 per cent of all valid votes and who belongs to the list with most votes is proclaimed mayor. If these requisites are not complied with, the municipal government elects a mayor from among the elected council members.