La regionalización en un contexto de urbanización regional: desde los desafíos a las propuestas de nuevos criterios de zonificación para el caso chileno.

Abstract

The dynamics of regional transformation of cities in Latin America in the last decades represents an important challenge for regionalization, according to the space of flows and dynamics of exchange of goods and services, the generation of rural-urban and population migratory processes Floating between urban nuclei of diff erent size decisively compromises the development conditions of the territory not only urban, but territorial and environmental. On what criteria regionalization should be sustained or modified, it is an important starting point for undertaking transformations in governance, planning and management so that the regions have a real role in national and local development. In the following proposal it is intended to establish a theoretical exercise with a spatially multivariate approach, which allows to join new criteria for the regionalization processes that are coming in a marked neoliberal context. In conclusion, the indicators that result from this exercise allow us to advance in a competitive, socially cohesive and environmentally sustainable region.