Promoting inequality through a lack of urban planning: urban growth in Latin America demonstrated by the examples of the Metropolitan Regions of São Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile / Promovendo a desigualdade pela falta de planejamento urbano: crescimento urbano na América Latina demonstrado pelos exemplos das Regiões Metropolitanas de São Paulo, Brasil, e Santiago, Chile,

• Autor(a) principal: Donoso, Verônica Garcia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Queiroga, Eugenio Fernandes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/42895
• topic: urban growth; metropolitan regions; São Paulo; Santiago.

This article gathers some research results about the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (RMSP), Brazil, and the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (RMS), Chile. The case studies were carried out during a PhD research analyzing the Brazilian and Chilean reality. It gathers geographical and historical analysis of each region. The article exposes some particularities of both realities considering not only the urban areas, but also the open spaces areas that still relates with countryside daily life. The results present information about the urban growth, highlighting the periods of high urban expansion. Moreover, it deals with the question, if a lack of urban planning is promoting inequality of social classes.