The Waste Land : A theoretical approach to Iberoamerican territorial policy

Abstract

Of late, many Iberoamerican nations have enacted rulings as to the best use and control of this with respect to virgin ground. Among others, the aim behind such legislation was to give a certain coherence and ordering to the matter at those points where problems tend to arise and in so doing to correct and overcome the old vices of the planning process. The paper puts forward a wish to set out an approach to lberoamerican planning as to territories through a more or less global analysis of the ideology underlying each policy and the grave conflicts of interest ever to be found where ground is used (City and Territory), conflicts that manifest themselves in the precarious standard of living of the inhabitants of these areas in question. Present day European experience and especially that of Spain because of the effects The Crisis has had on the process, its praxis and results, are here seen as giving the authors grounds for questioning the knife-point approach to groundspace problems this as a consequence of the glaring inadequacies in its present applications in Iberoamcrica.