Send article

Urban flood resilience in Chile

Authors

No. 43 (2020): December
https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2020.57868

Abstract

Understanding the attributes of the subsystems that make up the city and their potential in increasing resilience capacities is crucial for urban planning in areas exposed to natural hazards. Specifically, this article focuses on intermediate cities that are periodically affected by river floods in the central valley of Chile. In this regard, international experiences show that similar phenomena have a known rate of return and planned populated centres can take measures to adapt their urban system and live with them instead of just resisting them. However, little is known about the potential capabilities of critical equipment and its role as a recovery engine in emergency scenarios. To demonstrate this, this study examined the relationship between critical facilities and the use of open spaces with free access in the city, as attributes to increase urban resilience capacities against installed river floods, through two case studies: San Fernando and Los Angeles in Chile. The above, measured through an evaluation model designed by the authors. Consequently, the results obtained show that the location and coverage of these elements is essential to increase resilience.

Keywords:

Critical equipment, resilience, river floods

Downloads

Altmetrics
How to Cite
González González, L. E., Baeriswyl Rada, S., & Zazo Moratalla, A. (2020). Urban flood resilience in Chile: San Fernando and Los Ángeles experiences. Revista De Urbanismo, (43), 131–150. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2020.57868
ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver
Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX
 
Revista de Urbanismo
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Universidad de Chile
DATOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
Dirección de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB)