Funded Research
Research Projects
The CPE's research programme is funded by ANID (FONDECYT, FONIS), the Santiago Regional Government (FIC-R), and UDLA internal funds.
FONDECYT Regular · ANID2026–2029
Managing urban form and the global housing crisis in Greater Santiago (2010–2025): localised real-estate cycles, urban monocultures, and the mobile factory of land scarcity
Principal investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
FONDECYT Regular · ANID2025–2028
Critical spaces of green extractivism: exploring the extraction–capital–transition nexus in the Antofagasta region
Co-investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
FONDECYT Regular · ANID2024–2027
Geography of the housing crisis: subsidisation, informalisation, and contestation in cities across northern, central, and southern Chile
Co-investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
Fondo Interno UDLA2024–2026
Subsidiary housing policy and the persistent housing crisis in Chile: a socio-spatial analysis and search for solutions
Principal investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
FONIS SA23I0032 · ANID2023–2025
Spatial Food Epidemiology: geographically weighted modelling to identify urban determinants of nutritional health in Chile's main cities
Direction: Francisco Vergara-Perucich / Leslie Landaeta-Díaz
FONDECYT Iniciación · ANID2023–2026
Leaving the big city: new narratives, frictions, and mobilities towards non-metropolitan cities
Principal investigator: Ricardo Greene
FIC-R · Gobierno de Santiago2021–2023
Ciudad Mayor: a system for gathering perspectives to measure the quality of life of older people in urban environments
Project director: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
Fondo Interno UDLA2019–2021
Towards a Spatial Constitution of the Republic
Principal investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich
FONDECYT Iniciación 11180569 · ANID2018–2021
Towards a substantive theory of informal urbanism: Macrocampamento Los Arenales in Antofagasta and the super-dense buildings of Estación Central
Principal investigator: Francisco Vergara-Perucich