Los retos de la planificación urbana, retrospectiva y prospectiva

Since 2017, Urbano’s Editorial has been the space in which, as an editor, I have reflected on a variety of problems and challenges related to urban planning and the university reality that have accompanied me on my university journey as a member of UBB’s academic staff. Among them, and in an attempt to unify the articles’ topics, the editorial has addressed the ladder of participation (n.37), exposing the need for public involvement to ensure a high level in the result’s outreach to achieve real citizen power. Similarly, I have put on the table the problems related to peri-urban territories (n.39) that, with nuances in terms of methods and forms of agricultural production, globally suffer similar problems derived from urban pressure. On the other hand, and as a response to a changing reality in our Penquista environment, the editorial has dealt with the issue of density limits (n.38), together with Ignacio Bisbal, where we questioned the methods that were being proposed for urban re-densification through verticalization. The social structuring on an urban and neighborhood scale that emerged through the social uprising (n.40) was also addressed. It was considered that this could be the germ to channel the real needs of citizens for a new constitution. Within the new constitution’s development framework, the editorial approached the necessary inclusion of the right to food (n.43) and what this would imply regarding public policy to ensure spatial and economic accessibility to healthy food for everyone. The protection and management of urban wetlands have also been touched upon under the framework of the new law (n.44) after the fires in the Rocuant-Andalién Wetland and the reduction of urban wetlands such as Pichi Mapu in the Nonguén neighborhood.