SOLAR ACCESS: AN URBAN RIGHT TO QUALITY OF LIFE INFRINGED BY THE CONTEMPORARY GENTRIFICATION. THE CASE OF THE ESTACIÓN CENTRAL DISTRICT, CHILE
The energetic and luminous benefits of solar radiation are some of the factors that best regulate the quality of life in the human habitat, both in private and public spaces. However, this condition has been strongly disrupted in the last decades with the appearance of high-rise buildings —verticali...
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Universidad Diego Portales
2017
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.revista180.udp.cl/index.php/revista180/article/view/283 |
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| Shrnutí: | The energetic and luminous benefits of solar radiation are some of the factors that best regulate the quality of life in the human habitat, both in private and public spaces. However, this condition has been strongly disrupted in the last decades with the appearance of high-rise buildings —verticalization for this research—, which is a result of a prevailing real estate model and one of the typologies of contemporary gentrification. The present article proposes to install the definition of solar access in the urban discussion, establishing its regulation as a citizen right, and to integrate it properly to a process of urban renewal that reverts the expulsion of original residents. First, the norms in our Chilean legislation regarding the direct or indirect regulation of solar access are analyzed. Then, the case of the Estación Central district is explored from a normative approach of solar access and applied to a highrise building, and complemented through participant observation and interviews with key actors of the neighborhood. As part of the main findings, it is argued that although the accelerated verticalization of Estación Central is a common practice, this situation has not been confronted as a matter of urban development. On one hand, the lack of sunning produced by a high-rise building is not really evaluated as a problem, and on the other, those who are suffering this situation are normally people without defense resources. Finally, recommendations are presented that seek to improve both, the understanding and regulation of solar access, in order to be approached as a proper urban right within the Chilean urban regulations. |
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