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Strategies, social effects, and citizen responses of Barranco’s urban renewal process, Lima Universiteit van Amsterdam Centre for Latin-America Research and Documentation (CEDLA) Mirtha Lorena del Castillo Durand: UvA ID: 11132892 Supervisor: Dr. Christien Klaufus Second reader: Dr. Annelou Ypeij Submission: Amsterdam, December 2017 [0 ] List of contents List of illustrations .............................................................................................................................. 3 List of tables......................................................................................................................................... 5 List of abbreviations ............................................................................................................................ 6 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................ 7 1. Barranco under construction ......................................................................................................... 8 1.1 Contingency and subjectivity: My trajectory to study gentrification in Barranco .................. 8 1.2 My role as a gentrification researcher in Barranco ................................................................... 9 1.3 Locating gentrification in Barranco ......................................................................................... 10 1.4 Why Barranco? The relevance of this case study .................................................................... 12 2. Literature review and research design ....................................................................................... 13 2.1 Gentrification, spatial justice, and public space in the contemporary city ............................ 13 2.2 Research question and operationalization ............................................................................... 16 2.3 Methods of data collection ......................................................................................................... 17 2.4 Methods for ordering and structuring the information ........................................................... 18 2.5 Finding my own path: my experience as a gentrification researcher in Barranco ................ 18 3. The spatialization of the problem................................................................................................ 20 3.1 Lima’s real estate boom ............................................................................................................. 20 3.2 Barranco in the frame of the real estate boom ........................................................................ 22 3.3 Barranco’s socio-spatial background ........................................................................................ 24 3.4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 27 4. Barranco’s urban renewal process: Strategies and aftermaths ................................................ 28 4.1 Displacement of “Genuine Barranquinos”: The story of the quintas and solares ................. 28 4.2 The expansive wave of urban renewal processes ..................................................................... 32 4.3 Barranco’s urban renewal process and promises for development and modernization ........ 35 4.4 The loss of the heritage architecture ........................................................................................ 38 4.5 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 43 5. Barranco’s urban renewal process and the loss of cultural identity ......................................... 45 5.1 The capture of Barranco’s genuine cultural values ................................................................. 45 5.2 The mourning of culture: displacement of Barranco’s cultural centers ................................. 52 5.3 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 57 6. Barranco’s urban renewal process and the fight for public space ............................................. 58 6.1 The resignification of public space ............................................................................................ 58 6.2 “Los Yuyos” case: struggling for Barranco’s public space ....................................................... 70 6.3 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 80 7. Conclusive chapter: the trajectories of Barranco’s urban renewal process .............................. 82 References .......................................................................................................................................... 86 Appendix A: Operationalization of theoretical elements ................................................................ 99 [1] Appendix B: List of conducted interviews ...................................................................................... 100 Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 102 Resumen ........................................................................................................................................... 105 [2] List of illustrations Illustration 1-1: Image of Medalit’s house and the construction of Quinta Arrieta’s project ........... 9 Illustration 3-1: Maps of Greater Lima - Peripheral and Central Lima .......................................... 21 Illustration 3-2: Evolution of apartment prices per square meter 2012 – 2017 .............................. 22 Illustration 3-3: Percentage growth of square meter prices in Barranco and San Isidro 2014 – 2017 ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Illustration 3-4: Distribution of Barranco’s population ..................................................................... 25 Illustration 3-5: Map of “El Metropolitano” trajectory in Barranco and images of Avenue Bolognesi ............................................................................................................................................... 27 Illustration 4-1: Residents and dwellings of quintas and solares ..................................................... 30 Illustration 4-2: Location of the "Quinta San José" ........................................................................... 32 Illustration 4-3: Percentage growth of square meter prices 2014 – 2017 in Jesús María, Barranco, Chorrillos, Miraflores, San Isidro and San Borja .............................................................................. 33 Illustration 4-4: Percentage growth of new-build apartments 2014 - 2017 in Jesús María, Barranco, Chorrillos, Miraflores, San Isidro and San Borja ............................................................. 34 Illustration 4-5: Images of Barranco’s adobe houses with “for sale” signs ....................................... 38 Illustration 4-6: Images of medium and high-rise buildings ............................................................. 39 Illustration 4-7: Map of Barranco’s monumental area ...................................................................... 41 Illustration 4-8: Images recovered from the leaflet of Stelar project ............................................... 43 Illustration 5-1: Image of a leaflet showing Barranco’s municipal library with the municipality’s slogan .................................................................................................................................................... 46 Illustration 5-2: Images from the inside of Barranco’s municipal library ........................................ 49 Illustration 5-3: Images of Martin Adan’s house ............................................................................... 50 Illustration 5-4: Image recovered from the leaflet of “Domeyer Building”....................................... 51 Illustration 5-5: First row of images recovered from the leaflet of “Stelar” project, second row of images recovered from the leaflet of “El Mirador de Barranco” project ........................................... 52 Illustration 5-6: Image of the left shows a concert in “El Cinematógrafo”, image of the right shows the new residential building “Atelier” ................................................................................................ 54 Illustration 5-7: Image of the left shows “La Libre’s” owners, image of the right shows the inside of “La Libre” .......................................................................................................................................... 54 Illustration 5-8: Image on the left shows the moment that the excavator tumbled the dividing wall between “La Libre” and the future residential building “San Martin 140”, image on the right shows the project itself ........................................................................................................................ 55 Illustration 5-9: Image on the left shows a fair of independent designers carried out in “Casa Tupac”, image on the right shows the construction of project “Osma 307” .....................................