Urban Territorial Restructuring. A Balance of a Decade of Application of the Rehabilitation Program of Neighborhoods.From Neighborhood Management towards Eco-Neighborhood Governance

Abstract

The progressive changes from a disciplinary approach to a systemic one imply the challenge of deepening the articulation of advances coming from diverse disciplines that coexist in a common territory. Proposing territorial restructuring of the pre-existences and their problems means a disciplinary challenge that implies focusing the governance of urban territories at a local level in order to find those irreducible variables that allow the rehabilitation of communities in progressive deterioration, to deepen strategies of regeneration of the damaged social structure, and to propose work guidelines validated from the praxis in order to reduce the current uncertainty in decision making at the local level. Only in this way can effective progress be made in urban sustainability.

The Chilean experience of the Neighborhood Rehabilitation Program developed during the last decade by the Housing and Urban Development Department, from the base condition of vulnerability allows to recognize essential aspects in the political dimension of Land-use Planning.