Buenos Aires In Chile one of the questions we discussed at length was the problem of voter registration in the barrios created by la toma. In the post-dictatorship era voluntary registration has been complicated and led, not surprisingly to those of us from the United States, to declining percentages of registration and participation. This problem …
Author: wade
Sprawl City?
Santiago Ana Sugranyas, our friend from Habitat International Coalition, which we had gotten to know at the World Urban Forum this summer in Vancouver, was gracious enough to invite us to dinner at the apartment she and her husband shared in the Provencia neighborhood east of Santiago’s center. Her husband is Alberto Rodriguez, director of …
La Toma
Santiago Ana Sugranyes, the energetic director of Habitat International — Coalition, headquartered in Santiago, had somehow managed to get us meetings with community leaders in both La Victoria and Sierra Navia at different times during the weekend and guided us through the sprawling city to these meetings. Both communities were outgrowths after 30 and 50 …