The goal of this article is to identify the legal and urban factors that influence the morphology and governance of public spaces of the Greater Concepción’s peripheral neighbourhoods, in order to unveil the “structures of power” acting on the area.The main premise of the research is that the geography of power, both public and private, restricts the local communities’ attributes to control and design their own spaces. This analysis, by exposing the difficulties in the management of risk zones, the poor connectivity conditions between central and peripheral areas, as well as the lack of urban identity and local governance, allows us to define the critical condition in which the peripheral public space of Concepción is immersed.
Keywords:
Urban governance, urban periphery, public space, urban design
Ulloa Tesser, R. (2012). Geography of power and the design of peripheral public spaces in the Greater Concepción area. Revista De Urbanismo, 14(27), Pág. 64–91. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v14i27.26405
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