Urban land use planning issues: Who participates and how?

Abstract

This article is an exercise between academics and students of the course on the Enfoque Sociocultural del Ordenamiento Territorial taught at the UNAM's Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental. The aim of the article is to show the

complexity of the land-use planning process through various experiences. It is understood that land-use planning is more than just a public policy instrument, but rather a process that affects and is modified by the complexity of the elements that conform a territory. The territorial analysis approaches proposed by Morales-Barragán and Jiménez López (2018) were followed, recognising that territories are social constructions formed by the interrelationships of actors and biophysical elements, located at different scales and which structure their behaviour in institutions. Based on an understanding of this diversity of actors and institutions, issues surrounding territorial planning were analysed. The Ensamble de las dinámicas territoriales (2022) methodology proposed by the authors Morales-Barragán and Jiménez López was used. In conclusion, the article recognises, based on the Ensamble de las dinámicas territoriales methodology, the actors and institutional mechanisms in the problems of territorial planning, making evident the limitations of the approach in the case studies.