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"Urban versus rural" no longer matches reality: An early public agro-residential development in periurban Santiago, Chile

Madaleno I.M., Gurovich A.

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Using periurban Santiago's La Pintana district as a case study, this paper demonstrates that the urban–rural dichotomy is inadequate for capturing agro-residential realities, where cooperative smallholder farming coexists with urban uses in what the authors call a living ecocity laboratory.