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He argues, mostly convincingly, that the Pinochet regime's approach to urban planning from 1973 to 1990 integrated three distinct but related streams of thought: hygiene or public health, geopolitics, and neoliberalism. Pinochet described this entity as the "amoeba-state", with unstable and vulnerable borders, which would either absorb, or be absorbed by, neighboring states also fighting for their espacio vital - an evocation of Ratzel's key idea of Lebensraum. In this ambitious book, historian César Leyton Robinson traces the genealogy of the Chilean dictatorship's governing ideology and its application to the remaking of urban spaces. [Extracted from the article]

La ciencia de la erradicación: Modernidad urbana y neoliberalismo en Santiago de Chile, 1973-1990 by César Leyton Robinson (review) Según Leyton Robinson, los planes de la dictadura para Santiago reflejaban una larga obsesión de las élites políticas y científicas chilenas por el orden urbano, la limpieza y la seguridad. El programa de erradicación del régimen - la reubicación forzosa de miles de personas de asentamientos informales a nuevas localidades urbanas en el área metropolitana de Santiago - fue la culminación de varias décadas de preocupaciones de las élites ante la creciente amenaza de masas urbanas empobrecidas. [Extracted from the article]

Examines four elements of the conservation and sustainability concerns in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Area. Parks, reserves, and strictly protected areas; Management and humanized landscapes; Discussion on environmental protection in urban areas; Conservation and sustainable livelihood organizations.

The article explains the objectives of the "Journal of Latin American Geography" editorial team in publishing geographical and interdisciplinary studies on Latin America and the Caribbean.