ABSTRACT
This chapter is dedicated to the capital city of Chile, Santiago, in order to explore the ways in which urban resilience was introduced and evolved in policy and practice. Among the three cities addressed in this book, Santiago manifests the most centralized political and administrative structure. Indeed, the “emergence” of resilience in public policy reflects a rather top-down direction from international organizations to the Communes of Santiago, in contrast to the more organic process noted in Barcelona and San Francisco. The chapter describes the main risks and issues faced by the city of Santiago and its population - from climate change and seismic risk all the way to extreme income inequality and the associated problems. In turn, it explores the knowledge, technology, and finance behind the relatively recent resilience momentum.
