Editing Santiago (section)

=== Greater Santiago ===
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|+Relative growth of Santiago, by communes<ref name="ramon">{{Cite web |last=De Ramón |first=Armando |author-link=Armando de Ramón |year=2000 |title=Memoria Chilena - Documentos |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/mChilena01/temas/documento_detalle.asp?id=MC0007069 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327120403/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/mChilena01/temas/documento_detalle.asp?id=MC0007069 |archive-date=27 March 2008 |access-date=2015-06-12 |publisher=Editorial Sudamericana |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |id=[http://www.memoriachilena.cl/mChilena01/temas/documento_detalle.asp?id=MC0007069 Memoria Chilena: MC0007069] |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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! !!1940!!1952!!1960!!1970
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|align=left|[[Pudahuel|Barrancas]]||100||223||792||1978
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|align=left|[[Conchalí]]||100||225||440||684
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|align=left|[[La Granja, Chile|La Granja]]||100||264||1379||3424
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|align=left|[[Las Condes]]||100||197||506||1083
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|align=left|[[Ñuñoa]]||100||196||325||535
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|align=left|[[Renca]]||100||175||317||406
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|align=left|[[San Miguel, Chile|San Miguel]]||100||221||373||488
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|align=left|[[Santiago (commune)|Santiago]]||100||104||101||81
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In the following decades, Santiago continued to grow at an unprecedented rate. In 1940, the city had a population of 952,075 residents, which increased to 1,350,409 by 1952, and reached 1,907,378 in the 1960 census. This growth was reflected in the urbanization of rural areas on the outskirts of the city, where middle and lower-class families with stable housing were established. In 1930, the urban area covered 6,500 hectares, which increased to 20,900 in 1960 and to 38,296 in 1980. Although growth was mainly concentrated in communities such as Barrancas to the west, [[Conchalí]] to the north, and La Cisterna and La Granja to the south, the center of the city lost population, leaving more space for commercial, banking, and government development. The upper class, on the other hand, began to settle in the foothills of Las Condes and the [[La Reina, Chile|La Reina]] sector.

The regulation of growth in Santiago only began in the 1960s with the creation of various development plans for Greater Santiago, a concept that reflected the city's new reality as a much larger urban center. In 1958, the Intercommunal Plan of Santiago was released, which proposed a limit of 38,600 urban and semi-urban hectares for a maximum population of 3,260,000 residents. The plan also included plans for the construction of new avenues, such as the [[Américo Vespucio Avenue]] and [[Chile Route 5|Panamericana Route 5]], as well as the expansion of 'industrial belts'. The [[1962 FIFA World Cup|1962 World Cup]] provided a new impetus for city improvement efforts, and in 1966, the [[Santiago Metropolitan Park]] was established on Cerro San Cristóbal. The Ministry of Housing and Urbanism ([[:es:Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo de Chile|MINVU]]) also began to eradicate [[Campamento (Chile)|shantytowns]] and build new homes. Finally, the [[Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral|Edificio Diego Portales]] was constructed in 1972.

[[File:1965 3ra etapa.jpg|thumbnail|left|Extension of Greater Santiago, in 1965.]]
In 1967, the new [[Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport|Pudahuel International Airport]] was opened, and after years of discussion, construction of the [[Santiago Metro]] began in 1969. The first phase of the Metro, which ran beneath the western section of Alameda, was opened in 1975 and soon became one of the most prestigious buildings in the city. Over the following years, the Metro continued to expand, with two perpendicular lines in place by the end of 1978. Building telecommunications infrastructure was also an important development of this period, as reflected in the construction of the [[Torre Entel]], which, since its construction in 1975, has become one of the symbols of the capital and remained the tallest structure in the country for two decades.

After the military [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|coup of 1973]] and the establishment of the [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90)|military regime]], significant changes in urban planning did not occur until the 1980s when the government embraced a [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] economic model. In 1979, the master plan was revised, expanding the urban area to over 62,000 hectares for real estate development. This led to [[urban sprawl]], particularly in [[La Florida, Chile|La Florida]], causing the city to reach 40,619 hectares in size in the early 1990s. According to the 1992 census, Santiago became the country's most populous municipality, with 328,881 residents. Tragically, a powerful [[1985 Algarrobo earthquake|earthquake]] struck the city on 3 March 1985, causing minimal casualties but leaving many homeless and destroying numerous historic buildings.