Santiago isn’t a planning city?

When we see in google Earth the extension of Santiago we could be impressed of the large areas of only residential use, like condominiums or private villages in the periphery of the city, that have a few of public services and are very far from the downtown and the principal activities that the city offers.

First, despite of the “tranquillity” what offers the houses in the suburbs, to live in this areas of the city means more hours in the public transportation for arrive to work or even remoteness of the programmatic and recreational activities of the city, what finally ends isolating people in their square meter, also of the fatigue and stress what causes moving long distances and what force people to use the car, for being the only transport what could cover this zones, because the public transportation, the most of time, don’t have service to the periphery.

Above mentioned is a reality what happens in a lot of districts of Santiago, and this zones are the most economically accessible for people in our city. So the most of people in Santiago go through for this situation day after day, and it’s for that what we need design or redesign the city follow a model of compact city with mixed use what is close of public spaces and of different alternatives of public transportation.

Finally we need rethink the conception of our cities for ameliorate the quality of life of the persons.