A Sustainable Urban Sprawl?

Urban sprawl in Latin America is described as one of the major problems ‘the growth machine’. As a reaction, most planning policies are based on anti-sprawl narratives, while practice, urban has been thoroughly consolidated by all tiers government. In this paper – and using capital city Chile, Santiago, case study we challenge these politics light emerging environmental values associated meanings interstitial spaces resulting from land fragmentation contexts sprawl. Looking at that lie between developments becomes relevant understanding sprawl, considering significant attention paid to impact built-up space defines character cities their governance arrangements. We propose looking Santiago’s may contribute creation more sustainable sprawling landscapes inspire modernisations beyond policies. Finally, it suggested development regions might include suburban interstices consider them assets for comprehensive policy responses