In defence of planning as a collective project facing the current challenges of eco-social transition

If we understand the city as a physical, social and political space, facilitating processes of satisfaction of the quality of life of its inhabitants; and that any policy with the capacity for social transformation has its correlate in the physical scale of the city and the territory, it does not seem possible to define a new policy without a spatial planning instrument that makes this transformation project visible. Urban planning continues to be a valid instrument for this, but it needs to incorporate a frame of reference that seeks to respond to current urban challenges, whether new or inherited, without renouncing the extraordinary wealth of knowledge and experience of its own disciplinary approach, built with the contributions of many professionals and from the extensive real and historical experience of municipal planning in our country.