Informal city production within the framework of verticalization processes. Emergence of an urban micro-order in the commune of Estación Central?

Abstract

In a framework of increasing complexity in the construction of urban space, where the agents and interests are multiple and sometimes divergent, this work accounts for the emergence of new expressions of informal commerce within the framework of a dense and vertical real estate production in the Commune of Central Station, Santiago de Chile.These expressions are the result of the coexistence of dense buildings and a contiguous public space that sustains daily consumption practices not resolved in formality, with atypical hints to those known in Chilean cities, forming a new urban micro-order. This new micro order, which at first glance is a typical agglomeration economy, reports synergistic components with the surrounding dwellings, provides new commercial typologies and mainly reveals new forms of use and appropriation of public space.