Introduction
It’s been seven years since Talca experienced its most devastating earthquake in modern history. A glance into the recovery and reconstruction process reveals shattered communities, real-estate opportunism and institutional mismatches paving the way to a new era of urban transformations in the intermediate-scale city. This paper addresses Talca’s post-earthquake events (2010-2016) following the theoretical principles of evolutionary socio-ecological systems (Pickett et al, 2010; Chelleri 2011; Holling 2001). Our take on this approach is a non-linear analytical model to assess the development of the recovery and reconstruction stages in terms of urban resilience, based on insights that cross ecology, urban design and urban planning
It’s been seven years since Talca experienced its most devastating earthquake in modern history. A glance into the recovery and reconstruction process reveals shattered communities, real-estate opportunism and institutional mismatches paving the way to a new era of urban transformations in the intermediate-scale city. This paper addresses Talca’s post-earthquake events (2010-2016) following the theoretical principles of evolutionary socio-ecological systems (Pickett et al, 2010; Chelleri 2011; Holling 2001). Our take on this approach is a non-linear analytical model to assess the development of the recovery and reconstruction stages in terms of urban resilience, based on insights that cross ecology, urban design and urban planning