Punta Arenas: the tip of the iceberg of centralism. Habitat and territory 
The recent determination central government to establish a sharp rise in the values \u200b\u200bof natural gas consumed by the inhabitants of the Austral Punta Arenas, triggered a series of events that finally put in value organizational capacity of local actors to address the decisions made behind closed doors in Santiago.
This measure is neither more nor less than the putting into practice the strategy classic hat from regulations since the central authorities, which do not include the willingness of social actors and their contexts, also known as the classic system, "top- down "(top-down, top-down perspective).
What should be considered a state that believes "modern" (read that this is a bad decades ago ... not just now) is the essential tool to give effect to a system space - time territories, is the multiple use of it.
this perspective are considered a number of strategic proposals that must be taken into account in selecting the possible future development scenarios, which can be identified as:
resources of the territory, existing and potential
use planning,
administration and land management,
structural composition of the population,
image attitudes and aspirations of the people, technology components - structural state of the art
the territory's economy, institutional
force within the premises of human habitat in that territory. (1 Spent, John, Galvez, Consuelo Guzman, Dagoberto and Retamal, Alejandra. Sustained multiple use land management and farm community. Chapter in the book Land, land development and rural communes. Monographs of Ecology and Planning, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Catholic University, ISBN 956-8250-00-X. 995pp. page 445, page 474 .)
representation is made of a territory should be enough to keep the information, modeling and structuring database that will eventually allow determining the goal and achieve perform the steps to reach that state.
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set the goal and objectives relating to land use should, therefore, consider that space is heterogeneous and that there is a multiplicity of needs of the population. However, the first problems for territorial planning consistent with the goals - which may arise from considerations of integrating its various aspects, be they morphological, productive, social, environmental and phenomenological - are in the recurrent mismatch political divisions - administration, with the objective context of identity of these territories.
social actors are then fundamental in establishing guidelines of sustainable management in their areas of physical action, classified by their degree of receptivity and interest to carry out productive practices, the incorporation ability and interest in projects for their socio-economic levels, their ability of community participation and its power intervention in the processes of habitat management or production.
We have seen examples of involvement of stakeholders in the case of Punta de Choros, now in Punta Arenas, then it will be another area ....
The alleged redistribution of resources - made within the current administration is not linked to geographical and environmental realities - from the level superior to the community, you can not keep it in the long term in a sustainable local development process. It is proven that these resources management policies are ultimately less effective than those who stop to determine the true needs of the actors in a given territory, and thus the generation of initiatives from the ground up territorially to the upper levels of the structure public organization. The country's economic development is the logical consequence of sustained local economic development. (Quoted 1, page 23 )
No one better than the actors of a territory known their problems, therefore, logical is proceeding to prosecute them to seek their care. There is therefore no deliver solutions from the top of the organizational pyramid without the real support of the requirements of the base, where it is most likely to start having decontextualized interventions in all areas of environmental reality.
So what happens to the political and administrative division? Well, unfortunately, is not being designed under the full protection of the common good technical background containing sufficient strengths as uncompromising face the onslaught of the so called powers that be, thus preventing the negotiation of short and mean looking, is the line you draw the route of our urban areas, suburban and rural areas.
is sad to see that every time we go away from Santiago, the price of fuel ... it rises, as the cost of urban public transport in the capital, is charged to the entire national treasury, as the Region Antofagasta looks to spend its copper abroad, and what remains is nothing, and so with other regions ...
Then we complain about the excessive growth of Santiago city .... But if the city with more opportunities and the cheapest in the country! How
not going to be a catalyst for the population?, If that is a fact that "Santiago is Chile" .... Very despite our ...
There is a great debt to the country's sustainability, regionalization. Thus, in capital letters, that actually generate alternative development zones, to give young people like going out to the regions to stay in them ....
And we pay more for fuel and transportation and everything .... Let those who live in Santiago.
Comparative Studies show that in the capitals of the developed and developing countries, it is always more expensive to live than in the rest of the country, it is curious that this does not happen in Chile. Task
slope, which should take this seriously and governments to come, or force of the events is the example of Punta Arenas and other areas affected by the hat centralized administrative apparatus.
