ABSTRACT
The current socio-economic and political pressures reshaping space in most Latin American cities are producing an increasing number of cases of urban disappropriation as part of the local–global process that is transforming the cityscape. This process of dualization has occurred as a result of restructuring and the impact of new information and communications technologies. High tech industries have created new industrial landscapes on the model of Silicon Valley which are affecting cities all over the world. At the same time, these industries have intensified existing social and economic inequalities. The security-obsessed urbanism of walled and guarded neighborhoods and privatized public spaces is also creating new tensions and conflicts in urban landscapes.
