Send article

Incidence of laws of exception in planning the verticalización of the Metropolitan Area of Santiago

Authors

  • Magdalena Vicuña Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Centro Nacional de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Desastres Naturales (CIGIDEN), Santiago, Chile. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9476-396X
  • Marcela Paz Moraga Zárate Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile. Universidad Noruega de Ciencia y Tecnología, Trondheim, Noruega. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2342-5573
No. 45 (2021): December
https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2021.59415

Abstract

The aim of this work is to measure quantitatively the impact of intensive residential densification over the morphology of the urban fabric in the selected neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago. This is made through the review of different constructability indicators, expressed both in building permits as well as in the respective Communal Urban Plans. Complementarily we seek to understand to what extent some laws of exception such as “plot merging”, “harmonic set” and “DFL2”, weaken the capacity of communal regulatory plans to lead growth and urban transformations. These benefits allow additional percentages of constructability that exceed what is established by current Urban Plans, which in sum can significatively distance themselves from the urban planning vision defined for the city. The benefit of “plot merging” considers an increase of a maximum of 30 % and for the “harmonic set” it ranges between 30 and 50 %, depending on the conditions of the property to be densified. Meanwhile, for the benefit of “DFL2”, the increase in constructability considers a maximum of 20 %.

Keywords:

Constructability, laws of exception, Metropolitan Area of Santiago, urban planning, urban shape, verticalization

Downloads

Altmetrics
How to Cite
Vicuña, M., & Moraga Zárate, M. P. (2021). Incidence of laws of exception in planning the verticalización of the Metropolitan Area of Santiago. Revista De Urbanismo, (45), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2021.59415
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)