The global reality now living cities is a restructuring of the socio-spatial relations and traditional patterns of living and consumption. The city takes a decisive role in the political, economic and social to seek their incorporation into the globalizing dynamic, which creates the existence of different areas inside the city. The article discusses in general terms the processes of revitalization of the central areas of two Latin American cities (Santiago and Mexico City) and the socio-spatial changes that are generated. For the Latin American case, the evidence shows that the revaluation and rehabilitation of historic centers and colonial neighborhoods to create better places of transit, leisure and life for their inhabitants, involving heavy transformation thereof, with disparate realities, urban fragmentation and segregation gentrification.
Keywords:
Gentrification, historic centers, heritage
Author Biographies
Gabriel Gómez Carmona, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Arquitecto por la UAEMéx.
Maestro en Antropología Social por la UAEMéx.
Doctorante en Urbanismo por la UAEMéx.
Profesor-investigador de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Ixtlahauaca CUI
Alberto Javier Villar Calvo, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Doctor en Urbanismo, Profesor Investigador en el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Planeación Territorial de la Facultad de Planeación Urbana y Regional de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Gómez Carmona, G., & Villar Calvo, A. J. (2015). Impacts of the global into the local: Gentrification in Latin American cities. Revista De Urbanismo, 17(32), 3–17. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v17i32.36553
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