Conjunto de viviendas Lo Espejo: Lo Espejo, Chile

Aravena, Alejandro; Arteaga, Gonzalo; García-Huidobro, Fernando

doi:10.4067/s0717-69962008000200004

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“…Finally, we interpret that the respondents who extracted NTFPs had greater willingness to reforest because it is an economic resource, as was found in Soe and Yeo-Chang (2019). It is remarkable that in spite of the high commercial value of Quillaja saponaria (Quillay) bark, the high medicinal value of Peumus boldus (Boldo) leaves, and the medicinal use of other common native trees and shrubs of central Chilean forests (García & Ormazábal 2008), none of them were mentioned by the respondents. Rather, those who would choose to reforest cited two tree species that occur 500 and 800 km south.…”

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Willingness of rural communities to reforest with native tree species in central Chile

Smith‐Ramírez

Castillo

Armestó

2019

Restoration Ecology

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Economic development of rural people is not always feasible along with concomitant forest restoration, especially when meager reforestation incentives are oriented to poor rural people who probably are not willing to plant native species in their small plots of land. Forest restoration incentives have been created by the Chilean government to engage poor rural people in reforestation using native tree species to recover degraded lands. Our objective was to compare the willingness of people from rural communities to plant native species if they had to bear the costs or if the government did, and we related the answers to environmental and socioeconomic variables. Of the 217 respondents 53.9% were interested in planting native trees if subsidies became available. Interest decreased if the respondents had to pay for the cost, but only slightly. The willingness to reforest was significantly greater at lower distance from the community to the nearest native forest for those with lower income level, and was higher when there was use of nontimber forest products or wood by the respondents. However, in spite of the positive disposition to plant native trees, only 23% of the respondents were interested in planting on their own land, which is a requirement to receive the economic incentives. Most respondents were willing to plant in open sites and on degraded hillsides that surround their communities. We conclude that despite monetary incentives, benefits cannot reach most rural inhabitants because of their lack of interest in reforesting their own land.

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Willingness of rural communities to reforest with native tree species in central Chile

Smith‐Ramírez

Castillo

Armestó

2019

Restoration Ecology

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“…The Lo Espejo plot itself occupies 1.000 square meters (Aravena, Iacobelli, 2013). Alejandro Aravena describes the location of houses as an area which "is almost completely occupied by social and middle class housing, and industries that take advantage of the strategic location of the municipality between the two arms of the Pan-American highway" (Aravena, Arteaga, García-Huidobro, 2008). On the east side of the condominium is a police checkpoint and on the west is a consolidated plaza which separates the neighborhood from the Pan-American Highway.…”

Section: Elemental Lo Espejomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the duplex units, there is an area of 3 x 6 meters on each floor and an empty space of the same size between each duplex. This space is where the duplex units are expected to be expanded in the future (Aravena, Arteaga, García-Huidobro, 2008). 1 Un Techo para Chile is a Latin American non-governmental organization.…”

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Lessons of Incremental Housing Two Chilean Case Studies: Elemental Lo Espejo and Las Higuera

Marinovic¹,

Baek²

2016

Architectural research

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Low-income housing policies in South Korea have been pursued mostly by providing public rental housing for less privileged social groups. In contrast to this notion of housing, this article argues for housing ownership by low-income families. Two examples of this ownership policy are found in Chile. Incremental housing involves an open-ended housing platform, which requires home-dwellers to complete the construction process themselves. This article aims to examine structural, spatial and formal characteristics of the incremental housing projects. Taking the perspective of the home-dweller during the incremental construction process, we evaluate the houses before and after customization. Thus, we use data from field-work conducted for seven months in the Santiago Metropolitan Area of Chile.Using qualitative methods such as observation, semi-structured interviews, and surveys we focus on the Elemental Lo Espejo incremental housing project and then compare it with the Las Higuera housing project. The latter is representative of the incremental houses delivered by the Chilean government. In comparing these two projects, we aim to articulate the lessons of incremental housing with the intention of suggesting possible future developments for a wider-reaching incremental housing program.

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“…Goran Ivo Marinovic Limits of the current implementation of incremental housing expansion of the internal living areas. 16 Although the houses were designed to be extended by the inhabitants as a self-build process, in reality the actual construction was carried out by the building company Simonetti. The subsequent extensions were sponsored by the Chilean government in the form of a second subsidy given to the families.…”

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Limits of the current implementation of incremental housing

Marinovic¹

2020

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In the case of conventional public housing, urban planners and policymakers design the layout of a housing project in a specific location and then estimate how many households can afford a home. This housing policy has been pursued as a legitimate solution for housing low- and middle-income households where the houses are individually financed by bank loans or mortgages raised by the occupants. John Turner criticised conventional housing solutions by affirming that ‘developing governments take the perspective of the elite and act as if the process of low-income houses were the same as in high-income countries and the same as for the small upper-middle class of their own countries’. Bruce Ferguson and Jesus Navarrete extend this argument with their critique of distributing finished houses to low-income populations and then requiring long-term payments, which are harmful to the beneficiaries. They note that ‘governments think of housing as complete units built by developers that households must purchase with a long-term loan rather than as a progressive process’.

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Conjunto de viviendas Lo Espejo: Lo Espejo, Chile

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Willingness of rural communities to reforest with native tree species in central Chile

Willingness of rural communities to reforest with native tree species in central Chile

Lessons of Incremental Housing Two Chilean Case Studies: Elemental Lo Espejo and Las Higuera

Limits of the current implementation of incremental housing

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