Defining Metropolitan Temuco: Considerations for a new extended urbanization model in la Araucania Definiendo el Temuco metropolitano: Consideraciones para un nuevo modelo de urbanización extendida en la Araucanía

Rojo-Mendoza, Félix; Alvarado-Peterson, Voltaire; Olea-Peñaloza, Jorge; Salazar-Burrows, Alejandro

Abstract

Metropolitan areas are defined as densely populated areas characterized by conurbation and a capacity to expand towards the periphery. Technically speaking, Chile has three metropolitan areas: Valparaiso, Concepcion, and Santiago. Such definition, however, minimizes the role of variables such as migration, mobility, and the labor market in the establishment of a functional metropolitan area. This work is aimed at discussing the existence of a functional metropolitan area in Temuco. Processing census databases and social statistics, in addition to a descriptive and relational treatment of the aforementioned variables, the work displays the way in which Temuco-as a metropolitan area-impacts communes with high levels of migration and mobility. This changes between 2002 and 2012, moving from a concentrated and immediate area of influence to a decentralized and atomized one, thus extending Temuco's area of influence.

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Título según SCOPUS: Defining Metropolitan Temuco: Considerations for a new extended urbanization model in la Araucania Definiendo el Temuco metropolitano: Consideraciones para un nuevo modelo de urbanización extendida en la Araucanía
Título de la Revista: AUS
Volumen: 2020
Editorial: Universidad Austral de Chile
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Página de inicio: 41
Página final: 49
DOI:

10.4206/AUS.2020.N27-06

Notas: SCOPUS