La política urbana metropolitana frente a la globalización

The latin-american metropolis may attempt to redefine the meaning of urban policies from the perspective of sustainable human development. To do that they must mobilize the strengts ofthe extended reproduction of life with the same conviction and political will with which the market forces were set free, fostering a third pole of the urban economy - next to the capitalist entrepeneurial economy and the public economy -: "the popular economy". This requires a redirection in the actions and resources used today in an assistentialist manner, promoting in exchange new selfsustainable economic structures, as well as cultural institutions and guide lines coherents with integrator development and effective democratization. In the consolidation process of the refered pole the necessary corrections of the macropolitics will be solidifying. Because of their weight and capacity of creating new sinergies, essential for reintegrating an anomic and fragmenting system, the metropolitan cities may contribute, as protagonist actors, to the requisition and viability of a new societary project for the next century.The latin-american metropolis may attempt to redefine the meaning of urban policies from the perspective of sustainable human development. To do that they must mobilize the strengts ofthe extended reproduction of life with the same conviction and political will with which the market forces were set free, fostering a third pole of the urban economy - next to the capitalist entrepeneurial economy and the public economy -: "the popular economy". This requires a redirection in the actions and resources used today in an assistentialist manner, promoting in exchange new selfsustainable economic structures, as well as cultural institutions and guide lines coherents with integrator development and effective democratization. In the consolidation process of the refered pole the necessary corrections of the macropolitics will be solidifying. Because of their weight and capacity of creating new sinergies, essential for reintegrating an anomic and fragmenting system, the metropolitan cities may contribute, as protagonist actors, to the requisition and viability of a new societary project for the next century