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Centre Production of Space

Critical research on the production of urban space: housing, financialisation, the right to the city, and socio-spatial methods, from Santiago, Chile.

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About CPE

Mission, vision, lines of research, and strategic development plan. Funded research

Research Projects

FONDECYT, FONIS, FIC, and UDLA internal funds. Repository

Publications

Articles, books, and chapters indexed in WoS and Scopus. Audiovisual record

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Seminars, interviews, launches, and public engagement.

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Article · 2026

Small Models, Big Cities

Urban Science — A low-cost AI pipeline for urban regulatory document analysis. Article · 2026

Locked in Extraction

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society — Path dependence of Chilean neo-extractivism. Article · 2026

Central Bank Influence and Housing Financialisation

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series — Empirical evidence for the Chilean case. FONDECYT Regular · 2026–2029

Managing urban form and the global housing crisis

Principal investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich (ANID).