Urban Technocracy and the influences of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on Chile's urban policies (1961-2020)

The decisions made by the inhabitants of a city regarding their different urban affairs should correspond to participatory processes framed in the self-determination and autonomy of any country. However, in Latin America and particularly in Chile, decisions do not necessarily come from the citizens or from those who are in charge of making them. The objective of this research is to analyze the international trips of urban policies that have influenced technocrats or have intervened in their decisions through agreements with binding conditions from supranational organizations that mobilize ideas, resources, assistance and materials in decisions. urban in Chile. Under a methodology of emerging connections between public-private agents inspired by the framework of policy mobility -policy mobility-, this research used public and private sources to build different analysis matrices. The evidence sheds some light on how these international relations operate at an urban scale and how the agents establish networks, an infrastructure and technocratic materials that make up a topography/topology of the expertocracy. The conclusions allow us to initially envision productive ways of identifying this type of aspects that integrate cities into circuits of knowledge and policies from other latitudes and that interfere not only in decisions on an urban scale, but also in international relations, the democratic processes of cities and their inhabitants.