THE PLANNED CITY AND ITS SOCIO-SPATIAL INEQUALITY. What frustrates urban integration in today's city?

Abstract

Urban development is constantly evidencing contradictions: the city is, in essence, a place of conflict. This scenario puts democracies in tension with the public function exercised through urban planning, with effects on the distribution of public goods and services and the production of urban space. Is it possible to think of urban planning for the achievement of a just city in the current political-economic context? An answer is explored, based on an analytical framework of plans in communes with greater socio-economic vulnerability, from a historical perspective with different visions of integrated urban law in Chile. Thus, the instrumental content is contrasted in conceptual terms with the planning process. It concludes in a growing hybridism of practices, together with an internal contradiction between the purposes of a spatial planning model and the increasingly protagonist participatory and deliberative processes.

Keywords: socio-spatial inequalities, planning process, just city.