The National Urban Development Council (abbreviated CNDU) was a Chilean public body, in charge of ensuring compliance with the National Urban Development Policy (PNDU).[2]​ Its mission is to be a consultative and advisory body that permanently (indefinitely) makes proposals for reforms and will verify progress in the implementation and compliance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).[3]​ The Council is made up of a president, an executive secretary. and, thirty-one advisors, including presidents of business associations, mayors, councilors, ministers (and former ministers), undersecretaries, and parliamentarians.[1]​.

The National Urban Development Council was created on March 4, 2014, as "a new public expression of the need to build shared visions between the State, the private sector and civil society, for the construction of more equitable and fair, more democratic and participatory, more dynamic, prosperous and innovative cities." In short, more sustainable cities.[4]​.

The priorities on which it has focused its proposals during its first years of operation have pointed to the four main debts of our cities: inequality in the population's access to urban public goods, growing social segregation and urban exclusion, the accentuated centralism and sectoralism of urban management and, finally, the need to increase the levels of democratization and social participation in the construction of cities.[4]​.

In 2022, the Government of Chile created the National Territorial Development Council (CNDT), merging the National Urban Development Council (CNDU) and the National Rural Development Council (CNDR), maintaining the role of presidential advisor for the implementation of the National Urban Development Policy (PNDU), the National Rural Development Policy (PNDR) and the National Territorial Planning Policy (PNOT).

The National Urban Development Council must propose concrete reforms within the framework of the PNDU, recognizing the need for institutional adjustments and new emphases and approaches to State action in matters of Housing, Urban Development, Transportation and Public Works, among others. Its main tasks are:[3]​.

To support the operation of the CNDU, an Executive Secretariat was created, made up of a multidisciplinary professional team. This technical group, currently led by Pilar Giménez, is in charge of:[5]​.