Earthquake reconstruction and disaster fix in Talca, Chile
| dc.contributor.author | Letelier, Francisco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Irazábal, Clara | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-04T09:17:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-04T09:17:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The earthquake on February 27, 2010 (27F) in Chile had a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale and VIII on the Mercalli. The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami caused the deaths of over 500 people and devastated much of central Chile, the area where the majority of the country’s population lives. In a country where the urban population accounts for approximately 90% of the population, the cities of this area became the epicenter of the devastation. Talca, an intermediate city in this area of Chile, was negatively impacted both by the earthquake and the ensuing reconstruction process, whereby the preexisting neoliberal developmental regime was maintained. The earthquake left more than half of Talca’s downtown homes destroyed or badly damaged. Reconstruction policies, meanwhile, have facilitated the expansion of real estate dynamics in the city selectively producing sprawling, gentrifying, and rapidly deteriorating neighborhoods. Many urban poor residents have been either forced or bought out from their neighborhoods and relocated to remote areas where employment, public transportation, and basic services are limited. Through collective action, the community has resisted these changes, both in visible ways—holding public demonstrations, producing an alternative master plan, and demanding the reconstruction of public buildings—and in less conspicuous ways—devising new creative ways of using state subsidies or discarding them to rely instead on the self-management culture that originated their neighborhoods. Today, the disaster effects linger in Talca morphing into worrisome development trends. This article analyzes the dynamics that have led to these conditions and the alternative community development initiatives that could have allowed Talca to redevelop in more sustainable and equitable ways, had them been more extensively supported by the state. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1504-1506 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1932 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Earthquake reconstruction and disaster fix in Talca, Chile | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |