Territory Council
Introduction
The National Territorial Development Council is a Chilean public body, whose function is to advise the President of the Republic on the implementation of the National Urban Development Policy, the National Rural Development Policy and the National Territorial Planning Policy. It has 49 members representing the public sector, civil society organizations, academia and unions.
It was established on September 12, 2023 by the president of the Republic of Chile, Gabriel Boric Font, who appointed as president of the CNDT the academic from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) of the University of Chile and a doctor in Urban and Regional Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Paola Jirón Martínez.
The National Council for Territorial Development (CNDT) merged the former National Council for Urban Development (CNDU) and the National Council for Rural Development (CNDR), inheriting all their experiences, and to, among other things, incorporate comprehensive views on territorial planning, overcoming the urban-rural binarism.
Council's role
In recent decades, Chile has taken substantial steps towards the construction of an intersectoral approach that, under the logic of sustainability, integrates the social, economic and environmental dimensions of territorial development at its different levels; considering the complexity and dynamism and interdependence between urban and rural territories and their inhabitants.
For this reason, in 2023 the Government of Chile took a new step in this direction by creating the National Territorial Development Council (CNDT), merging the National Urban Development Council (CNDU) (created in 2014) and the National Rural Development Council (CNDR) (created in 2020), maintaining its role as presidential advisor for the implementation of the National Urban Development Policy (PNDU), the National Rural Development Policy (PNDR) and the National Planning Policy Territorial (PNOT).
In this way, the challenge was assumed to move towards territorial planning that leaves behind the traditional urban-rural dichotomous vision, which recognizes the geographical diversity of human settlements and the natural systems in which they develop, along with giving continuity to the work developed by the former CNDU and CNDR.
To fulfill its advisory function, the Council carries out the following tasks: