El Programa de Recuperación Urbana Ribera Norte; veinte años de aciertos y desaciertos de una política de proyectos urbanos en Chile

Edison Salinas Varela; Sergio Baeriswyl Rada

doi:10.5354/0717-5051.2017.45676

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The Ribera Norte Urban Recovery Program; Twenty years of successes and failures of a policy of urban projects in Chile

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Edison Salinas Varela Universidad del Bio-Bío
Sergio Baeriswyl Rada Universidad del Bio-Bío

No. 36 (2017): Junio

https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2017.45676

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Abstract

The Ribera Norte (North Riverbank) Urban Recovery Program in the city of Concepción is one of the major urban renewal projects promoted by the Chilean government in the 1990s and is still underway to date. Its importance lies in its large intervention area and the complexity of a highly marginal sector just blocks from the city center. Twenty years after the program's inception, this article gives a synthesis of the development and evaluates the results achieved in relation to the program's objectives. The methodology consists of a chronological analysis that reviews the proposed objectives, management model and achievements of the program's three dimensions: social, urban and real estate. As a result, those public policy tools that have been effective in solving complex urban problems that continue to generate conflicts in most Latin American cities are validated.

Keywords:

Macro-scale urban project , urban management , urban renewal , Ribera Norte (North Riverbank) Concepción

Author Biography

Edison Salinas Varela, Universidad del Bio-Bío

Arquitecto, Máster en Gestión y Valoración Urbana, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Profesor de Urbanismo I Universidad del Bío-Bío. Líneas de investigación: crecimiento urbano, metropolización, fragmentación urbana,consumo de suelo urbano, Instrumentos de planificación y gestión urbana

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Salinas Varela, E., & Baeriswyl Rada, S. (2017). The Ribera Norte Urban Recovery Program; Twenty years of successes and failures of a policy of urban projects in Chile. Revista De Urbanismo, (36). https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2017.45676