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sido completamente soslayadas por el proyecto de sote- rramiento del Plan de Recuperación Urbana Ribera Norte (PRURN) (Fig. 05). Esto con el propósito de rebatir a la visión predominante en Latinoamérica y, sobre todo en Chile, donde más de una decena de sociedades público-privadas considera que la solución clave es soterrar o desviar el paso de los trenes y autopistas por la ciudad, olvidando los elevados costos económicos y medioambientales de dichas operaciones que inutilizan el subsuelo y sus napas freáticas. Bajo estas premisas, la investigación se transforma en una herramienta de acción para intervenir y mejorar la calidad de vida de algunas de nuestras ciudades intermedias, penetran- do en un campo multidisciplinario, cada vez más ineludible, donde el aporte de los arquitectos al diseño de infraestructuras de transporte aparece, aún, como una figura difusa. Hablamos de una práctica profesional innovadora, que demuestra cómo la producción académica en el ámbito de la arquitectura y estudios urbanos es capaz de responder al mercado laboral y a la agenda pública, a través de políticas públicas y alianzas multisectoriales, entre otras múltiples acciones. /

inclusive design principle (Y) that simultaneously con- siders infrastructure, equipment, and public space, max- imizing economic efficiency through shared costs. As the OECD-Subdere and the CNDU state, today it is imperative to incorporate a multipurpose approach in the planning, design, and management of rail corridors, understanding them as areas of opportunity to improve the quality of urban life in its social, environmental, and economic dimensions. All this is achieved through urban projects that incorporate multidimensional, interdisciplinary, and interscale points of view in their different design and planning stages. Filipe Temtem's doctoral thesis proposes a design al- ternative to the Bio-Bio regional government´s, one that rethinks the value of the viaduct structures that have been completely overlooked by undergrounding the North Riv- erside Urban Recovery Plan (PRURN) project (Fig. 05). The purpose of this is to refute the predominant vision in Latin America, especially in Chile, where more than a dozen public-private partnerships consider that the key solution is to bury or divert the passage of trains and highways through the city, forgetting the high economic and envi- ronmental costs of such actions that render the subsoil and its groundwater unusable. Under these premises, research becomes an action tool to intervene and improve some of our intermediate cities´ quality of life, penetrating a multidisciplinary field, increasingly unavoidable, where architects´ contribution to the design of transportation infrastructure still appears as a diffuse figure. We are talking about an innovative professional practice, which demonstrates how academic production in the architectural and urban studies field is capable of responding to the labor market and the public agenda, through public policies and multisectoral alliances, among other numerous actions. /

La tesis doctoral de Filipe Temtem propone una alternativa de diseño al gobierno regional del Biobío que recapacita sobre el valor de las construcciones en viaductos que han sido completamente soslayadas por el proyecto de soterramiento del Plan de Recuperación Urbana Ribera Norte. Filipe Temtem's doctoral thesis proposes a design alternative to the Bio-Bio regional government´s, one that rethinks the value of the viaduct structures that have been completely overlooked by undergrounding the North Riverside Urban Recovery Plan (PRURN) project.

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