Abstract

MERCEDES, Ferrer; GARCIA, Yajaira; QUINTERO, Carolina  and  BARROSO, Helen. The Building of a Cityinterface Between Urban Policy & Local Public Financing. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.3, pp.507-529. ISSN 1315-9518.

Abstract The objective of this paper was to identify the financial sources of urban policy in the Maracaibo Municipal Government and the changes that occurred in the same over the period 1989-2001. To understand the relationship between urban policy and public financing, local management plans, annual budgets and annual reports of the municipal government were reviewed and contrasted, and the offices of Planning, Budgeting and Income (Rent), were interviewed. As a result of this research, two major changes were identified in local financing related in the structure of the various incomes of the Municipality and in relation to the increasing importance given to financing in urban policy. Two basic conclusions were drawn; the existence of an investment policy for local public financing which favors the construction of the city of Maracaibo and the execution of urban policies, and secondly the search for new sources of local, national and international financing. The strategy implanted by the Mayor of Maracaibo during the period under study relies on corporate vision and practice, directed towards a strengthening of visible urban management, the objective of which is to impact the quality of citizen life in the short run in order to politically re-legitimize management policy, and to increase public space and local governability

Keywords : Public local financing; urban policy; good government; visible management; the Maracaibo Mayors office.