Planificación territorial y crecimiento urbano: desarticulaciones y desafíos de la sostenibilidad urbano-regional en Santiago metropolitano.

The instruments of territorial planning –metropolitan and communal master plan–, they have showed a limited capacity to assume the sustainability of the urban growth. This situation has been expressed particularly in processes of modification or updating in metropolitan master plan of Santiago of Chile. Some disruption issues between planning and urban-regional sustainability are: the option of the population by the dwelling in extension, in relation to the civic opposition by living in high buildings; the uneven and insufficient distribution of green spaces; and the absence of a geographical conscience regarding the new scale of city-region that is acquiring the capital city. The present article analyzes critically the planning of the growth and development of the city, considering the civic and institutional frame, and the disruptions nested and the challenges to future in the perspective of the urban-regional sustainability.