Abstract

This article is part of the project results 2012 "Impact of real estate and tourism development of small towns Chilean central coastal resort: location of departments and resort, coastal urban gentrification and new residential demographics" awarded by the University of Chile to the Project postulated by Professor Camilo Arriagada Luco. The objective was "to study the impact of the growth in tourism-real estate, its effects on the valuation of urban land and sociodemographic and immigration over urban region of the metropolitan area of Valparaiso , including through the North Concon , Maitencillo y Zapallar and through the south MirasolAlgarrobo area. The methodology of the study combines quantitative data analysis using the CASEN survey of the Planning Ministry and the 2002 Population Census, interviews to academic experts and urban planners and interviews to old inhabitants of the towns redeveloped. In special terms also was observed areas and land registration visible effects of influence of a number of mega projects located within the selected cases. In this paper, we review particularly if the cases analyzed show evidence of removal of poor people and gentrification dynamics, satisfaction of the residents with the trends of change and evaluation of the coastal spatial expansion process in aggregated terms according the interviews with Chilean planners remarking the challenges for the future of the public policies.