Desafíos (Apr 2010)
New Scenarios for Territorial and Urban Management
Abstract
The restructuring of the State, with respect to its role in the urban, territorial, social, and economic development, causes two major trends in the political and institutional arena: the Urban Development Process spread and the cities growth involving in their dynamics more neighboring territorial environments; and, in parallel, the ambiguously so-called Globalization. In this way, public entities facing development are sharing more several activities and functions, which had been in their almost sole responsibility, with the private sector, and social and community organizations. According to the foregoing, these different trends suggest that Management should be thought beyond the government sphere to involve the other actors that participate in the development process, thus accommodating the construction of interaction networks, both among the public entities and between these and other market and society organizations in general.
