Medium Sized Cities The definiton of a "medium size city" could be refered to the following considerations: 1. Numeric: Population. It?s important to know, that the term "medium size city" is not strictly defined by the quantity of people that live in it. A Mexican study2 identified medium size cities as being also defined by the relative relationship with a region or nation. In both cases, the medium dimension could be decide just by the relation with the big cities, because the differences between the small cities are uncertain.
[Taxonomy of medium-sized Chilean cities]
Peri ? Urban Agriculture The periferic voids of Calama occupy the threshold between the urban and the rural zones. This border condition makes them as complex, inaccessible territories at the moment of this intervention. The possibility of providing food supplies from the urban orchards to the city of Calama is an alternative of engagement of these voids. The urban agriculture pretends the sustainability of the cities by the use of the rich land that is un-useful because of its border and complex placement. If, during decades, the native villages of the north were dedicated to the potato and corn crops, due to the fact that these vacant places couldn't be a possibility for the city, the people generated a transition space between the growth of the city and the rural zone or farm. The proposal is based on the expansion of the urban limit suggested by the PRC (Comunity Regulator Plan since 1999) and by the "green" occupation of the border and central voids. This could generate a conexion system between the centre and the periphery limit zone of the city. The expansion of the main roads of the city could connect both areas: urban and rural, creating a programmed void. |
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The urban voids of medium size Chilean This cities are, in most cases, placed within the urban limits of the city, at the periphery of them. Sometimes, these voids are configured in relation to geographiy, as in the case of 