Víctor Alegría

I’m currently afiliated with Universidad de Chile. My research interests include informal urban morphology in Latin American cities. My recently completed Master Thesis “Morphogenesis of Informal Settlements in Chile: Through multi-scalar mapping” investigates the properties of informal urban morphologies and the morphogenic processes that generate them. By examining four different cases in Chile where informal settlements have been dramatically increasing during the last decades‚ this study sheds light on the logics and patterns that emerge from a range of informal morphologies. The research also explores the relations and factors at play in the emergence of informal urban design, opening directions for future investigation.