PLANNING RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION: THE CASE OF SANTIAGO, CHILE

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Residential segregation in Santiago, Chile, has intensified as a result of urban planning and slum eradication projects under military rule. This paper draws on income data from a 1977 survey and documents segregation in metropolitan Santiago. A major actor in this segregation process is a new type of military government, the bureaucratic-authoritarian regime, which has adhered to a free-market development model and has forced political quiescence during its 14-year rule. Despite its authoritarian structure, however, the regime has sanctioned neighborhood organizations (Neighborhood Boards orluntas de Vecinos) for regulating zoning and for requesting social services. This paper identifies the processes of siting public housing projects at the urban fringe and shows how the current regime is deepening the pattern and process of residential segregation through its subsidization of lowincome housing and tacit approval of citizen participation in urban planning.

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