Urban Diagnosis and the Citizens' Role For a year, the roundtable "Coyhaique: the city we want" brought together various actors who met monthly to analyze, discuss and raise issues related to mobility and accessibility, environment, integrated urban development, art, culture, and heritage. Public and private institutions and NGOs such as Cicleayque and Fecunda Patagonia were also invited to these meetings. The Ministry of Housing and Urbanism's action plan for the Aysén Region was also one of the inputs reviewed with a methodology that allows giving cross-cutting legitimacy to the "City Agreements". A "DNA Workshop" also allowed the participants to agree on the identity of Coyhaique as a city on a human scale, with its inhabitants' closeness and the crucial importance of its natural environment. Citizen consultations through social networks made it possible to incorporate the opinion of Coyhaiquinos into this view. Among other aspects, this exercise showed that 83 percent of those consulted felt that the city's development was not being planned. Even so, practically the same percentage - 82 percent - projected themselves living in Coyhaique for the next 10 years, which demonstrated the deep roots and sense of be- longing of its inhabitants. Simultaneously at the first urban diagnosis tables, more than 350 people participated in the "Survey of City Confidence", carried out in person to know the attitudes, perceptions, expectations, and preferences of the Coyhaique inhabitants re- garding their territorial well-being and their vision of the urban, social, economic and environmental development of the Patagonian capital. This in- strument detected that Coyhaiquinos consider that their city has values associated with solidarity, effort, and respect, where nature and heritage are a fundamental part of the local identity, which is reflected in monuments and viewpoints. "Some data we observed was that for citizens both streets and avenues represented the city's most deteri- orated areas and that 56 percent considered the environment to be the main problem, while 48 percent of the population used private vehicles to travel from home to work," added Martín Andrade concerning the various challenges posed by the community for Coyhaique. Based on this type of information, which complemented the territorial analysis of public transportation, housing, services, energy, tele- communications, data from the Atlas de Biene- star Territorial (prepared by Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, the Chilean Chamber of Construction and Corporación Ciudades) and the Integrated Bank of Projects and Priority Investment Zones, a picture of Coyhaique and its future development was formed, leading to the identification of the axes on which the work and proposal of "Coyhaique: the city we want" were focused on. This methodology is highlighted by Pedro Staudt, architect and counselor of the Coyhaique CChC, who considers that it is unusual to have an opportunity of this magnitude. A cross-cutting invitation to dialogue on equal terms, seeking only beneficial agreements, urban ideals, and concrete solutions. An example of citizen collaboration for the common good.
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“ALGUNOS DATOS QUE OBSERVAMOS FUE QUE PARA LA CIUDADANÍA, TANTO CALLES COMO AVENIDAS, REPRESENTABAN LAS ZONAS MÁS DETERIORADAS DE LA CIUDAD Y QUE UN 56 POR CIENTO CONSIDERÓ QUE EL MEDIOAMBIENTE ERA EL PRINCIPAL PROBLEMA, MIENTRAS UN 48 POR CIENTO DE LA POBLACIÓN USABA EL VEHÍCULO PARTICULAR PARA TRASLADARSE DESDE SU HOGAR AL TRABAJO”, AÑADIÓ MARTÍN ANDRADE EN RELACIÓN A LOS DIVERSOS DESAFÍOS PLANTEADOS DESDE LA COMUNIDAD PARA COYHAIQUE. "Some data we observed was that for citizens both streets and avenues represented the city's most deteriorated areas and that 56 percent considered the environment to be the main problem, while 48 percent of the population used private vehicles to travel from home to work," added Martín Andrade concerning the various challenges posed by the community for Coyhaique.
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