Measuring Urban Diversities in Cities in Transformation: Case of Temuco, Chile

Abstract

Contemporary studies have shown that the core challenges of future cities will be the crossfires between urban form, liveability and sustainability due to transformations. One key area of concern is how the current transformations contribute to more sustainable urban environments by encouraging a diversity of users, not only to meet and get to know each other but also encourage people to gain a strong sense of belonging to space and to collaborate in its transformation and the restructuring. In this study, therefore, the morphological and transformational processes in the neighbourhoods of Temuco were explored to understand how it encourages inclusive pluralism of social and spatial dimensions of the urban space, and how the process is essential for achieving a sustainable urban form. The study revealed that the morphological transformations in the study neighbourhoods between 1990 and 2018 have encouraged inclusive pluralism of social and spatial dimensions, which is vital for a sustainable urban form. The study recommends amongst other things the sustaining of the existing diversity through a modification to the Communal Regulatory Plan of Temuco to regulate developments at the neighbourhood level.