Economies of Scale
“There have been a lot of low-rise, high-density developments in Santiago recently, but they are mainly governed by isolation of the family unit and the importance of the car.”
CRISTIÁN IZQUIERDO, ARCHITECT
thirtysomething couples laughing and strolling through the Santiago, Chile, district of Las Condes over the last few years. They would invariably steer toward the French restaurant Baco, where the conversation always took a turn toward brainstorming: Will our front patios be partitioned off, or will the kids be free to run between them? Should
