Francisco Vergara-Perucich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 290694 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Francisco Vergara-Perucich |
| PRENOMES | Francisco |
| SOBRENOME | Vergara-Perucich |
| ASSINATURA | VERGARA-PERUCICH F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Americas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1930-4691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Urban Neofractures and Land Mafias
This article examines transformations in informal access to urban land in Chile, marked by the emergence of mafias de la tierra (land mafias): armed groups that organise land invasions and illegal subdivisions, displacing long‐standing housing struggles led by social movements and political parties. This phenomenon produces what we term an urban neofracture: a rupture through which land is converted into an informally traded commodity, deepening …
A caring smart city
Age-friendly and smart-city agendas have developed in parallel: the former foregrounds older adults’ wellbeing but lacks operationalisation, with indicators under-capturing digital inclusion and pedestrian safety; the latter deploys data platforms treating older people as passive subjects within privately governed systems. Although care is increasingly recognised as a principle of urban governance, few studies examine how co-designing civic techn…
Small Models, Big Cities
Background: Urban planning documents at metropolitan scale typically demand large, cloud-hosted language models that limit their adoption in Global South contexts. This study deploys Moondream, a 1.7-billion-parameter vision-language model (VLM) runnable locally via Ollama, for extracting geographic knowledge from Planes Reguladores Comunales (PRCs) across 29 processed Gran Santiago municipalities. The pipeline combines native PDF text extraction…
From Survival to Solidarity
Lefebvre conceptualises streets as spaces imbued with political meaning, where mobility, everyday life, and resistance dynamically converge. This conceptualisation was vividly manifested during the 2019 social revolt in Santiago, Chile, when citizens appropriated streets and plazas as territories of collective struggle against entrenched inequalities. In this context—and subsequently amplified during the Covid‐19 pandemic— ollas comunes (communit…
Central bank influence and housing financialisation
This article examines the role of Chile's Central Bank in the financialisation of housing through an empirical analysis of the dynamic relationships between monetary policy, mortgage rates and real housing prices from 2004 to 2023. Employing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the study identifies a long-run cointegrating relationship (HPI = –53.63 × Mortgage Rate + 16.23 × Policy Rate) in which housing prices are inversely related to mortgag…
Extractivism
This article reconceptualises extractivism as a core mechanism shaping climate-induced (im)mobilities, moving beyond technocratic framings that overlook its embedded socio-ecological and political dimensions. Drawing upon a qualitative case study in Antofagasta, Chile – an epicentre of copper and lithium extraction – we explore how classical, neo-, and green extractivisms generate not only territorial dispossession but also structural (im)mobilit…
Dimensions of surplus value in construction
Contesting the Right to Sustainable Cities Under Neoliberalism
This article examines the grassroots urbanism of Los Arenales, a large informal settlement in Antofagasta, Chile, within the theoretical framework of Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city and its application under neoliberal constraints. It critiques the limitations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly their top‐down implementation and neoliberal tendencies, by juxtaposing them with community‐driven approaches rooted in spatial …
The 15-minute city and real estate capital
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred discussions on reimagining cities based on principles of public health and reducing spatially expressed inequalities. In this context, the concept of the 15-minute city has emerged as a priority for municipal authorities in the case of Chile. However, the implementation of this model faces challenges, including the dominant presence of the market in the production and capitalisation of urban life in Chilean citie…
AI-Driven Deconstruction of Urban Regulatory Frameworks
This article presents a novel methodology for auditing urban regulatory frameworks through the application of artificial intelligence (AI) using the case of Greater Santiago as an empirical laboratory. Based on the semantic analysis of 31 communal zoning ordinances (Planes Reguladores Comunales, PRCs), the study uncovers how legal structures actively reproduce socio-spatial inequalities under the guise of normative neutrality. The DeepSeek-R1 mod…
Housing policy in Latin America
Green(ing) extractivisms
Bargaining the dark side? Fragmented extractivist governance under hybrid political arrangements in the Chilean copper and lithium industries
This article examines how bargaining power is exercised by an extractivist state across political arrangements and spatial scales within global extractive production networks. Focusing on Chile’s copper and lithium sectors, it introduces the concept of fragmented extractivist governance: a mode through which the state selectively deploys neoliberal, rentier, and developmentalist logics to shape who benefits from, and who bears the costs of, resou…
The Vertical Ghetto
This article examines vertical ghettos in Santiago de Chile, exploring their architectural and symbolic dimensions through a semiotic framework. These high-density residential towers, shaped by market-driven urban policies, exemplify the intersection of neoliberalism and socio-spatial inequality. By analysing floor plans, sections and elevations, the study reveals how architectural decisions prioritise economic efficiency over community well-bein…
Locked in extraction
This article provides a multi-scalar analysis of Chile’s development trajectory, demonstrating that its historical dependency on resource extraction has evolved into a resilient and complex financialised extractivist lock-in from 1940 to 2022. Using Bai-Perron structural break analysis and regional Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we reveal how the national economy transitioned from a primary-export model to one where a dependent service secto…
Beyond the Drawing
This study interrogates the interplay between architectural practice and ethnographic inquiry to elucidate human spatial experience across time and culture. Employing a mixed-methods design that integrates computational bibliometric analysis with thematic coding of international academic literature, the research identifies six thematic domains—memory, pedagogy, urban injustice, institutional care, domesticity, and vernacular epistemes. These doma…
La tokenización de la vivienda en Chile. Especulación, ficción y desmaterialización
El artculo analiza cmo la tokenizacin se presenta en el mercado inmobiliario en Chile y sus potenciales implicaciones para el acceso a la vivienda en un contexto de crisis habitacional.La tokenizacin, facilitada por la tecnologa blockchain, implica el fraccionamiento de propiedades en tokens digitales que pueden ser comprados y vendidos, lo que promete democratizar la inversin inmobiliaria.Sin embargo, el estudio muestra que este proceso tambin i…
Brexit and the London housing market
This study aims to analyse the impact of Brexit on London’s housing market, exploring socio-economic and regional disparities. By examining property transaction data from 2012 to 2022, the research seeks to understand how Brexit has influenced real housing prices across different boroughs of London. The methodology involves aggregating transaction data from the Her Majesty (HM) Price Paid database and normalizing prices using the Consumer Price I…
Mapping Nutritional Inequality
This study investigates the socio-spatial distribution of food deserts in Santiago de Chile, aiming to understand how urban planning and socioeconomic factors influence access to nutritious food. Employing geospatial analysis techniques with data from OpenStreetMap and the 2017 Census, the research identifies areas within Santiago where access to healthy food is limited. The novelty of this study lies in its application of spatial autocorrelation…
El capital en la era del Antropoceno. Una llamada a liberar la imaginación para cambiar el sistema y frenar el cambio climático, de Kohei Saito
El cambio climático ha sido administrado de forma prudente y ciertamente beneficiosa por las naciones cuyo éxito económico depende de mantener el modelo capitalista existente tal cual como está, con los mismos objetivos de crecimiento sostenido y generación de rentas a partir de actividades con probada capacidad de generación de riqueza. Mientras los líderes mundiales se han aferrado con fuerza a la idea de encontrar caminos que resuelvan el camb…
Culturality index of Chile
This article reports the development of an index of culturality in Chile. Fifteen quantitative variables indicative of local cultural development are used to measure the access to cultural opportunities in each Chilean district. This approach was adopted from the theoretical framework of cultural materialism theorized by Marvin Harris in the seventies. Using this framework, a ranking is developed among 164 districts to determine the degree of cul…
Infrastructural inequality
This paper examines the digital divide in the city of Santiago, Chile. The research uses the density of mobile phone antennas as a proxy for digital infrastructure. The findings show that there is a strong correlation between the density of mobile phone antennas and socio-economic status. Areas with higher incomes and more mobile phone antennas have better Internet connectivity than areas with lower incomes and fewer mobile phone antennas. The ob…
Financialisation of Housing in London
This paper aims to empirically review the process of housing financialisation in London, exploring a time series causal relationship between house prices and financial instruments, using the Granger method and a VAR test. In order to carry out this analysis, we use a vector autoregressive model with a monthly data series that seeks to contribute to exploring this relationship. The results are relevant to the important role that the theory of hous…
Déficit de la vivienda en el Gran Santiago
En Chile existe un déficit de vivienda estructural que ha consolidado su aumento a pesar de la importante cantidad y montos otorgados como parte de la política habitacional, la cual se basa en la entrega de subsidios a la demanda. El presente artículo evalúa espacialmente la relación contradictoria entre esta política habitacional y variables socioeconómicas que permiten concluir que los subsidios no permiten romper con el proceso reproductivo de…
Pedagogía Crítica Y Aprendizaje-Servicio en La Universidad Neoliberal
Este texto describe una actividad de aprendizaje-servicio, implementada a partir del marco lógico de la pedagogía crítica en una universidad neoliberal. Ésta consistió en el pintado de fachadas del corazón social y político del macrocampamento Los Arenales, el asentamiento humano informal con mayor población y ocupación territorial de la Región de Antofagasta, Chile. Se describe la importancia de concientizar mediante la praxis crítica a docentes…
Exploring the Contradiction in the Ethos of Urban Practitioners under Neoliberalism
This article problematizes the relationship between the ethos of urban practitioners and the ideology of neoliberalism to show how neoliberalism has transformed urban design to make it an efficient mechanism for capital accumulation. The method used in the article is based on archival research and statistical analysis in addition to a comparative housing sample in Chile from the Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (Environmental Assessment System). …
Co-producing the right to fail
The article depicts how the inhabitants of the macrocampamento (macro-slum) ‘Los Arenales’ aimed to bring their concrete urban utopia closer, by co-producing the first cooperative bakery in a Chilean informal settlement. Despite its many flaws, the process is proposed as a social innovation, since it managed to bring a new diverse economy into existence while also improving several aspects of the urban displaced. It is also novel in gathering his…
Commodification in Urban Planning
The concept of habitus, as introduced by Pierre Bourdieu, serves as a lens to understand the subjective dispositions and perceptions that influence decision-making within the social realm. This study delves into the intricate relationship between urban planners' habitus and the commodification processes inherent in a neoliberal society. Through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 27 Chilean urban planners, this research identifie…
The big bang of neoliberal urbanism
This study presents a spatial history of the origins of Santiago’s neoliberalisation, unveiling its urban history from the critical point of view of land at the centre of social classes’ dispute over city life. It situates the contestation and struggle over land in a genealogical progression from the origins of the disciplinary field of urbanism (1932) to the transformation of its regulatory framework, making it an exclusively profit-oriented pra…
Bread for advancing the right to the city
This article describes the creation of a cooperative bakery whose significance is fourfold: (1) it is the first located inside a Chilean campamento (informal settlement); (2) it was organized and managed by inhabitants, mostly Latin American immigrant women; (3) its implementation faced diverse conflicts that serve as lessons for similar experiences; and (4) it provides evidence from the field about strategies for advancing the right to the city …
Hacia la utopía concreta
El Puerto de Antofagasta es una infraestructura urbana ha sido foco de diversos problemas socio-espaciales históricos en la ciudad, generando una constante fricción entre sus funciones productivas (asociadas al acopio de material tóxico para la salud humana) y la creciente vida urbana en la llamada capital mundial del cobre. A partir de un conjunto de antecedentes y experiencias que antes han intentado transformar la relación del puerto con la ci…
Green(ing) extractivisms
Bargaining the dark side? Fragmented extractivist governance under hybrid political arrangements in the Chilean copper and lithium industries
This article examines how bargaining power is exercised by an extractivist state across political arrangements and spatial scales within global extractive production networks. Focusing on Chile’s copper and lithium sectors, it introduces the concept of fragmented extractivist governance: a mode through which the state selectively deploys neoliberal, rentier, and developmentalist logics to shape who benefits from, and who bears the costs of, resou…
Mapping Nutritional Inequality
This study investigates the socio-spatial distribution of food deserts in Santiago de Chile, aiming to understand how urban planning and socioeconomic factors influence access to nutritious food. Employing geospatial analysis techniques with data from OpenStreetMap and the 2017 Census, the research identifies areas within Santiago where access to healthy food is limited. The novelty of this study lies in its application of spatial autocorrelation…
Desafíos de Integración Urbana en Chile
Este estudio explora la segregación residencial en Chile, enfocándose en el capital humano avanzado como indicador de nivel socioeconómico. Utilizando datos del censo 2002 y 2017, se aborda la segregación a escalas nacional, regional y comunal mediante el índice de disimilitud. Los hallazgos revelan una marcada segregación en las principales ciudades. De manera especulativa, los niveles de segregación son tan altos que sería necesario reubicar al…
Bajo escasez ¿Media casa basta? Reflexiones sobre el Pritzker de Alejandro Aravena
El artículo construye una agenda política de transgresión disciplinar contra el capitalismo a partir de las razones que valieron para Alejandro Aravena un Premio Pritzker y la curatoría de la Bienal de Venecia 2016. En ambos casos, las instituciones patrocinantes han informado que se reconoce el rol de Aravena como arquitecto social con una agenda orientada a ayudar a las personas de escasos recursos. A lo largo del artículo se expone la naturale…
Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America
Aplicaciones de la teoría implosión/explosión
Desde la teora de la implosin/explosin propuesta por Neil Brenner, tomando como base las interpretaciones de la urbanizacin planetaria desarrollada por Henri Lefebvre, se propone generar una nueva conceptualizacin terica del problema de la urbanizacin, incorporando a la matriz de anlisis los ciclos productivos econmicos que ocurren en la no-ciudad cuyo capital resultante se acumula en la ciudad. Para evaluar la pertinencia de esta teora en Chile,…
Richard Florida
Henri Lefebvre, Marxist thought and the city
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Hacia la utopía concreta
El Puerto de Antofagasta es una infraestructura urbana ha sido foco de diversos problemas socio-espaciales históricos en la ciudad, generando una constante fricción entre sus funciones productivas (asociadas al acopio de material tóxico para la salud humana) y la creciente vida urbana en la llamada capital mundial del cobre. A partir de un conjunto de antecedentes y experiencias que antes han intentado transformar la relación del puerto con la ci…
El precio por el derecho a la ciudad ante el auge de campamentos en Chile
The price for a right to the city
Urban Design as a Form of Agonistic Democratic Expression
This article reflects on the potential of urban design to contribute to spatializing the theory of agonistic democracy grounding this reflection by three specific urban practices that have emerged from cracks in the democratic system under neoliberalism: a protest, a community-developed square, and an artistic intervention in the public space. The analysis of these practices valorizes the role of urban design as a potential methodology for contes…
Bread for advancing the right to the city
This article describes the creation of a cooperative bakery whose significance is fourfold: (1) it is the first located inside a Chilean campamento (informal settlement); (2) it was organized and managed by inhabitants, mostly Latin American immigrant women; (3) its implementation faced diverse conflicts that serve as lessons for similar experiences; and (4) it provides evidence from the field about strategies for advancing the right to the city …
Actos de disenso como urbanismo democratizador
El presente artículo busca avanzar en la teorización de un urbanismo del disenso. Ante el descrédito experimentado por la democracia representativa, parte de la ciudadanía ha escogido la calle y la marcha como mecanismos para expresar su malestar. Este fenómeno va en aumento y convierte a la ciudad en una caja de resonancia del malestar público. Utilizar el entorno urbano como medio para impugnar la democracia representativa construida sobre los …
The big bang of neoliberal urbanism
This study presents a spatial history of the origins of Santiago’s neoliberalisation, unveiling its urban history from the critical point of view of land at the centre of social classes’ dispute over city life. It situates the contestation and struggle over land in a genealogical progression from the origins of the disciplinary field of urbanism (1932) to the transformation of its regulatory framework, making it an exclusively profit-oriented pra…
Co-producing the right to fail
The article depicts how the inhabitants of the macrocampamento (macro-slum) ‘Los Arenales’ aimed to bring their concrete urban utopia closer, by co-producing the first cooperative bakery in a Chilean informal settlement. Despite its many flaws, the process is proposed as a social innovation, since it managed to bring a new diverse economy into existence while also improving several aspects of the urban displaced. It is also novel in gathering his…
Exploring the Contradiction in the Ethos of Urban Practitioners under Neoliberalism
This article problematizes the relationship between the ethos of urban practitioners and the ideology of neoliberalism to show how neoliberalism has transformed urban design to make it an efficient mechanism for capital accumulation. The method used in the article is based on archival research and statistical analysis in addition to a comparative housing sample in Chile from the Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (Environmental Assessment System). …
El derecho a la ciudad financierizada
Este artículo presenta un conjunto de antecedentes para producir el concepto de derecho a la ciudad financierizada: la aplicación de la agenda emancipadora del derecho a la ciudad sobre los procesos de producción de ciudad en la era de la financierización, con especial énfasis en la vivienda y tomando como referencia el caso de Chile. A modo de ensayo crítico, se recoge evidencia empírica que expone cómo ocurre la financierización de la vivienda,…
Precios y financierización
A partir de un conjunto de datos del mercado de la vivienda se desarrolla una evaluación empírica con enfoque econométrico sobre cuál es la significancia estadística de los aspectos críticos mencionados por la literatura sobre la financierización de la vivienda, para así evaluar su impacto sobre su precio para el Gran Santiago entre 2009 y 2019. Los resultados indican que sí existe significancia estadística entre la formación de precios de la viv…
Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl policies partially address only a few determinants of a multifaceted phenomenon. This includes processes of extended suburbanisation, peri-urbanisation…
Lecciones de la historia económica de Chile
Lecciones de la historia econmica de Chile: hacia reducir la desigualdadestructural a partir de una aproximacin estadstica
Community mapping with a public participation geographic information system in informal settlements
This article shows how a public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) may be used as an asset to foster the right to the city. It describes the implementation of one such public participatory process for registering the story of the macrocampamento Los Arenales in Antofagasta, Chile. Specifically, it stresses how a geographic information system can help build collective engagement regarding special policies and urban life. Los Arena…
Vivienda informal y las organizaciones territoriales en América Latina
Krijnen, 2020), comúnmente considerados el "Sur Global".Desde una perspectiva comparada, las ciudades latinoamericanas presentan procesos de informalidad similares, constituyéndose como una práctica habitual de producción del espacio urbano de sectores medios y populares.Estas prácticas presentan una dimensión espacial significativa, que se hacen más evidentes en las proximidades a los centros urbanos dominantes y en las periferias de las ciudade…
Culturality index of Chile
This article reports the development of an index of culturality in Chile. Fifteen quantitative variables indicative of local cultural development are used to measure the access to cultural opportunities in each Chilean district. This approach was adopted from the theoretical framework of cultural materialism theorized by Marvin Harris in the seventies. Using this framework, a ranking is developed among 164 districts to determine the degree of cul…
Infrastructural inequality
This paper examines the digital divide in the city of Santiago, Chile. The research uses the density of mobile phone antennas as a proxy for digital infrastructure. The findings show that there is a strong correlation between the density of mobile phone antennas and socio-economic status. Areas with higher incomes and more mobile phone antennas have better Internet connectivity than areas with lower incomes and fewer mobile phone antennas. The ob…
Financialisation of Housing in London
This paper aims to empirically review the process of housing financialisation in London, exploring a time series causal relationship between house prices and financial instruments, using the Granger method and a VAR test. In order to carry out this analysis, we use a vector autoregressive model with a monthly data series that seeks to contribute to exploring this relationship. The results are relevant to the important role that the theory of hous…
Déficit de la vivienda en el Gran Santiago
En Chile existe un déficit de vivienda estructural que ha consolidado su aumento a pesar de la importante cantidad y montos otorgados como parte de la política habitacional, la cual se basa en la entrega de subsidios a la demanda. El presente artículo evalúa espacialmente la relación contradictoria entre esta política habitacional y variables socioeconómicas que permiten concluir que los subsidios no permiten romper con el proceso reproductivo de…
Pedagogía Crítica Y Aprendizaje-Servicio en La Universidad Neoliberal
Este texto describe una actividad de aprendizaje-servicio, implementada a partir del marco lógico de la pedagogía crítica en una universidad neoliberal. Ésta consistió en el pintado de fachadas del corazón social y político del macrocampamento Los Arenales, el asentamiento humano informal con mayor población y ocupación territorial de la Región de Antofagasta, Chile. Se describe la importancia de concientizar mediante la praxis crítica a docentes…
Desafíos de Integración Urbana en Chile
Este estudio explora la segregación residencial en Chile, enfocándose en el capital humano avanzado como indicador de nivel socioeconómico. Utilizando datos del censo 2002 y 2017, se aborda la segregación a escalas nacional, regional y comunal mediante el índice de disimilitud. Los hallazgos revelan una marcada segregación en las principales ciudades. De manera especulativa, los niveles de segregación son tan altos que sería necesario reubicar al…
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