E n these days ñuñoína community is proving in practice the abysmal gap between citizens and their political representatives in the democratic process in Chile today ...
After mounting a childish props, the City Council has given Ñuñoa Finally, on Wednesday 17 January, a revision of the so-called "Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment Communal Ñuñoa regulator, after a shameful and vicious process of submitting to the public, and pretending to decide the fate of ñuñoínos.
This proposal, far from curbing the already disastrous destruction of the commune, just add more territory to the greed of real estate, unleashing so, to every corner of this rugged Ñuñoa replacement process of existing urban structures, and chaotic building height and density, imposing in an urban model odds Ñuñoa with its past and traditional human-scale neighborhoods.
The responsibilities of this true "urbanicidio" fall into a commercial urban planning doctrine, which has persisted since the dictatorship, when in 1979 he decreed that cities would be regulated only by supply and demand of urban land, as construction industry moved the economy the country. Logic that resulted from those years in communal permissive regulatory plans, leaving to the discretion of the property market the task of shaping the country's cities.
In Ñuñoa everything up for that with the upturn in the economy, this veritable tsunami triggered towers high above the ruins of what was described recently as the community to improve quality of life of the country, still the same Pedro Sabat the architect of the PRC Ñuñoa, while former mayor appointed by Pinochet, between 87 and 89.
So if the mechanical inertia of the wheels of the macroeconomics of the country, rests in a substantive way in the industry construction, what are objectively the real prerogatives of the urban population today, to participate democratically in decisions about the type of city you want to live?
And today is the turn of Providencia, where once again, the community is run over in their most basic rights, displaced, crowded and overcome by the forces of this factual system, which is not in the libretto hear the piercing cry voiceless, the flesh and soul do cities.
However, as in other parts of the country has emerged from a seed of rebellion Ñuñoa citizen to this destination bound. After months of intense struggle to defend the community, the Citizen Network By Nuno-group cross-residents and various organizations have been able to mobilize and remove the apathy and despair, to major portions of the community ñuñoína, thus assuming the role that representatives of local government, elected by the citizens, have left exercise, informing, discussing collectively with the community and producing a critical and proactive in addressing the serious crossroads in the municipality it is today. But before such evidence, the municipal authorities persist in autistic and behavior. And it does not seem to assess the political costs that this will be before the next municipal elections in 2008.
is why ñuñoína community should compel those authorities who have ceased to represent it, to call a binding referendum, it has to meet the intricate demands of the law to get it. Ñuñoa must recover their lost dignity as well as the country's citizens must rebel, to economic success, continue to rest upon the misfortune of their populations.
This proposal, far from curbing the already disastrous destruction of the commune, just add more territory to the greed of real estate, unleashing so, to every corner of this rugged Ñuñoa replacement process of existing urban structures, and chaotic building height and density, imposing in an urban model odds Ñuñoa with its past and traditional human-scale neighborhoods.
The responsibilities of this true "urbanicidio" fall into a commercial urban planning doctrine, which has persisted since the dictatorship, when in 1979 he decreed that cities would be regulated only by supply and demand of urban land, as construction industry moved the economy the country. Logic that resulted from those years in communal permissive regulatory plans, leaving to the discretion of the property market the task of shaping the country's cities.
In Ñuñoa everything up for that with the upturn in the economy, this veritable tsunami triggered towers high above the ruins of what was described recently as the community to improve quality of life of the country, still the same Pedro Sabat the architect of the PRC Ñuñoa, while former mayor appointed by Pinochet, between 87 and 89.
So if the mechanical inertia of the wheels of the macroeconomics of the country, rests in a substantive way in the industry construction, what are objectively the real prerogatives of the urban population today, to participate democratically in decisions about the type of city you want to live?
And today is the turn of Providencia, where once again, the community is run over in their most basic rights, displaced, crowded and overcome by the forces of this factual system, which is not in the libretto hear the piercing cry voiceless, the flesh and soul do cities.
However, as in other parts of the country has emerged from a seed of rebellion Ñuñoa citizen to this destination bound. After months of intense struggle to defend the community, the Citizen Network By Nuno-group cross-residents and various organizations have been able to mobilize and remove the apathy and despair, to major portions of the community ñuñoína, thus assuming the role that representatives of local government, elected by the citizens, have left exercise, informing, discussing collectively with the community and producing a critical and proactive in addressing the serious crossroads in the municipality it is today. But before such evidence, the municipal authorities persist in autistic and behavior. And it does not seem to assess the political costs that this will be before the next municipal elections in 2008.
is why ñuñoína community should compel those authorities who have ceased to represent it, to call a binding referendum, it has to meet the intricate demands of the law to get it. Ñuñoa must recover their lost dignity as well as the country's citizens must rebel, to economic success, continue to rest upon the misfortune of their populations.
