ABSTRACT
This section presents the key practices that have emerged with the neoliberalisation of Santiago, focussing on the way these changes influenced the disciplinary field of urban design. This chapter explores the spatial outcomes from the institutional transformations that generated the practice of urban design under neoliberalism. This process produced a particular set of urban outcomes that reflect how this neoliberalisation was spatialised. The chapter provides a contextualised perspective of Santiago as a metropolis and how it was transformed by neoliberal policies, such as the National Policy of Urban Development of 1979, the social housing programmes of the 1990s, and the strong development of public-private partnerships in urban development. This chapter analyses examples that illustrate Santiago as a neoliberal city. The chapter also shows how urban designers developed strategies to contest urban-design-under-neoliberalism based on institutional changes, contestation in the public space and criticising the modes of production.
