Nuevo Chile, acción colectiva y tejido social. La historia contada por sus habitantes

Abstract

The Nuevo Chile neighbourhood represents many settlements in Latin America that have been self-produced by their inhabitants. Numerous studies from sociology, anthropology, political science, urban planning and urban development have focused on them, describing their origins, the trajectories through which they were built and their subsequent consolidation. In this chapter, we present a quick review of the three main readings on the process of urbanisation in Latin America and, particularly, on self-produced neighbourhoods, emphasising an aspect that we consider important in this book, the reconstruction of the social fabric.