Real Estate Second Residence Production in the Coastal Border of the Valparaiso Metropolitan Area (1992-2012): Morphological Typologies in the Commune of Puchuncavi

Abstract

Contemporaneous urbanization dynamics of coastal borders share common and specific traits acknowledged in different Iberian-American areas. This article discusses the analysis of this process for the case of the commune of Puchuncaví, in Region Five, Valparaíso, between 1 992 and 2012. This was carried out from a theoretically informed description approach, whereby a site condition and real estate project morphology analysis was preceded by a synthesis process through a graphic model. The analysis suggested that real estate development -mostly second residences- resulted in new urban forms in the coastal border, framed within a broader city-less urbanization process that is becoming a feature of the urban macrozone of Chile's central area.