AMÉRICA LATINA: TERRITORIOS EN TRANSFORMACIÓN

Abstract

Industrialization in the post-World War II period triggered accelerated urbanization that transformed Latin American territories, forming large cities. The neoliberal pattern of capital accumulation, which replaced state interventionism after 1982, modified them by combining major changes: privatization and commodification; capitalist construction of peripheral social housing; reconstruction, densification and verticalization by transnational real estate-financial capital; financialization of real estate; mobility managed by the private sector; unequal access to information technology; transition to a network of tertiary corridors; relatively large overpopulation; rising cost of living and impoverishment of the majority; state authoritarianism and the fight for citizen participation; and so on. What will be the future of Latin American cities in the medium term?