The administring of urbanistic phenomena in Chile The Shared Overall Background to Private and Public Sector Management

Abstract

The paper seeks to set forth the basic elements to any urban phenomenon that would allow us to understand
the framework within which both public and private initiatives within this field are carried out, the latter
through institutions, legislation and the instruments proper to these.
It is felt that any administering of these phenomena calls for an awareness of the concepts 'city' and
'development', along with those relations that exist as between the State and the overall framework of
regulations within which it must govern both, public and private activity in the sector, the administrative
structure for urban development, the part played by policy for this sector, town and country planning as
such and its proper instruments and all such who might have the managing of municipal projects and works.
The paper divides up into a first part headed Concepts to Urbanistic Theory in which the city in understood
in terms of its private or public administering, this followed by a second, Development, Administration, and
City Planning in which the theme of the part to be played by the State and its organizing structure and how
the way it carries out its planning serves it as a tool with which to shape and regulate urban development
is given consideration. A third, Development Policy explains the purpose of this and the way it is brought into
line with legal procedure and established operative ways and means. A fourth, Planning Instruments,
Building Projects and The Carrying Through of Municipal Works concerns itself with the part played by
these three at various levels of putting things into effect while the last and fifth, Conclusions and
Recommendations, is quite simply concerned with these.