Subregional and Local Scales in Planning:

Anchors and Integration for National Development

Abstract

This academic essay aims to provide insights into the need for functional, operational, and cognitive integration of the key territorial scales for planning the development of the Venezuelan nation. These scales are: national, subregional and local/communal. The legal structure and governance purposes of the constitutionally established territorial political division are broken down into the following levels: National, State a Municipal, each with specific powers and functions. However, for the purposes of national development planning, the National Executive with dominion over the entire territory of the Nation, under a Bolivarian vision, has developed a proposal for public policy for national planning based on the exercise of direct participatory and leading democracy supported at the national, subregional and local communal levels, unlike how it was territorially framed prior to the arrival of the Bolivarian revolution, at the scales: national and regional scales. These scales completely removed from the lives and needs of the national majority population groups, which social weaknesses, which led to favoring small groups with national and regional economic interests, how in turn-imposed project proposals that suite their interests. All of this changed with the new national territorial planning system, whose anchors are at the subregional level for national productive diversity and the local communal level to promote social needs and improve the quality of life of organized communities.