PRESENTER: Miriam Chion

BIO: Architect, M. City Planning, Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her research work includes transformation of Metropolitan Lima in the global context, industrial development in Southern China, and decentralization and regional development in Peru. She has worked in the design and implementation community development programs in Lima, Peru. She is currently working as urban planner on economic development and land use changes at the City of San Francisco Planning Department.

TITLE: The Spatial Transformation of Newly Industrializing Metropolitan Regions in the Global Context: The Case of Metropolitan Lima in the 1990s

ABSTRACT: After a period of major political violence and severe economic crisis, Peru rejoined the financial international community in the mid-1990s. This transition involved major economic and political transformations that led to the consolidation of a new spatial organization of Metropolitan Lima, the capital city. This study explores the intersection of global economic processes, local development factors, and emerging institutional arrangements during the 1990s. The analysis focuses on three major processes: the expansion of international financial operations through a new financial center, the intersection of informal and international networks to form a new industrial district, and the increasing importance of local identity in the global context through the rehabilitation of the historic center.