By Fabiola Oropesa
Posted October 1, 2007
pulled Santiago grows everywhere, without a sense that it unifies. So is not the same, said Tejeda, a city bigger than a big city ...
"Santiasco" I say, sometimes, angry about pollution, traffic congestion and what we consider the unfortunate city to live and breathe. We affirm with some degree of disgust, but also of tragedy, as if everything that happened it was part of a default unfortunately, no way out.
we blame the founder, Pedro de Valdivia, who came to notice to Santiago in a valley surrounded by hills, which now constitute the perfect setting for high levels of pollution. Do not come to found cities, but to take territory, analysts said, explaining the structural flaws in the capital shows from its origin, a problem arising from the distinction between places Machiavelli was founded by its residents, as is the case Athens and Venice, and colonial towns, built by foreigners, of which examples are all in Latin America.
But Despite this stamp marked by conquest, Santiago has not always been a territory without regard. The best evidence is the geometric design and numerical order gave way and they all admired in its infancy. What became what we now know it came later: the lack of planning, regulation and a clear vision of what is hoped to build, features also found in other cities, says the architect and academic Faculty of Architecture at the University of Chile, Humberto Eliash. "We are participating in strategic studies in several urban areas of Chile and many cities will feel the same: no overview and live to resolve emergencies, if there is a flood or cut the bridge, but no idea of \u200b\u200bwhat you want and move towards that goal. Lack a joint project to channel and guide the development of the city, "he explains.
"Without this coordination and direction to guide its growth, Santiago has been at the mercy of the sway of the authorities," he continues Eliash. At times with initiatives that are surprisingly high value harmony and public spaces, such as construction of the ride Bulnes in the '30s or the Remodeling San Borja in the late 60's. Initiatives plausible but today, especially in the second case, show your decadence and the remnants left over from a place created for the meeting, that no preserved through the years.
In contrast, the concept is currently proposed new building projects that have erupted in historic residential districts. Hence, an academic at the University of Chile and author of "Dictionary design critic, Juan Guillermo Tejeda, hold that we have not decide for a particular model. "The Santiago are divided between two models of the city, one which corresponds to our history, the Mediterranean matrix, which is a city around the agora, the public square, and has examples of Greece, Rome, Spain and the baroque colonial city.
But parallel is the influence of the city's Anglo-American, more vegetables, separately, replacing the public square for a mall. And we Chileans we like the place and we like the mall, so we have a split personality in that sense, "he says. For Tejeda, the problem is also political, as Santiago does not have an urban authority to take charge of all matters as a whole. "It is an abandoned city from the political viewpoint, which has no system to solve their own problems and to generate a model.
constituency elected deputies, elected Mayor of neighborhoods, but we have no authority capable of dealing with macro issues of pollution, transport or security, which are cross-cutting issues throughout the city. Eliash agree with that there is no city of this size that has no city government, we are the exception, "said Tejeda.
The low participation exacerbates the lack of concern of the authorities on urban issues. He says the deputy (PPD) Patricio Hales, acknowledging the lack of commitment by the various authorities involved. "The people think that cities alone can spoil, but in fact spoil from the power of investment and the rulers who make public policy. Therefore, as urban citizens have no conscience, politicians can sleep at night and no one passes the bill because people believe that cities are bad fate of destiny, a disgrace own development. But it's not true! This happens in Chile, in other parts of the world's best cities makes progress, "he says. Today, in 2007, we have a housing and planning law has never been discussed in Congress. Was enacted in 1931, without a parliament, during the government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and his only modification was made in 1975 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Concertación governments have pledged their reformulation during the last twenty years, during which it has sent a new project has been delayed, has retired from Congress to the present day, where we still expect to send a new initiative to better regulate land use. Experts say that without a comprehensive policy, local or central authorities make decisions that negatively affect the city as a whole. Decide real estate projects, public works and roads, which do not include the impact they generate, for example, motorways on stocks, houses and people who remain behind their walls.
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