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Ernesto will give a general overview of widespread gentrification taking place in four Latin American cities: Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. To this end, four dimensions are reviewed: (1) the creation of new transport accessibility by the state in deprived historical central neighbourhoods, (2) the conformation of public-private alliances and the multi-agent complexity of the rent gap absorption, (3) effects on social stratification in gentrifying neighbourhoods, and (4) emerging strategies for anti-gentrification activism and resistance. Ernesto López-Morales is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Planning, University of Chile and Associate Researcher at the Centre of studies of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES). He obtained a PhD degree in the DPU, UCL in 2009.
