Post-scriptum on regional development: Real models and Mental models
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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71611998007200003Keywords:
regional and local development, urban policy, regionalizationAbstract
This paper, prepared by a tireless believer on the democratization potential involved on the territorial development, does not worn out on the mere revision of failures. Handling out a double - category analysis: the concept of real model and, on the other hand, the concept of mental model, the author studies the situation shown by real models of regional development in Latin America, on the bases of its basic components (regionalization, decentralization, and regional development). Being evident that failure, ambiguity and scarcity are the major characteristics that has accompanied those processes. More important than mere confirmation of those results, is author's explanation effort regarding to the mental model, described as the "previous rational representation of the action". In this paper it is sustained that structural factors have set impediments for the construction of mental models adequated to support successful territorial interventions. These factors in fact are related with methodological, epistemological, practical and ideological matters, which its significative lacks must be healed to turn into practice the justice potentiality of regional policies.
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