ABSTRACT

In an official context, urban planning is considered one of the most important processes that

have the modern city, due to the high degree of urban development that entails the advance of

projects to regulate the city. Its importance derives from the ability to have different economic

agents, experts and interdisciplinary groups to design the city according to urban patterns.

However, from the theoretical perspective of the social production of space, urban planning is

considered an ideological process used to create and reproduce spaces valued by the circulation

of private capital in the housing marke. Based on the previous statement, this study aimed to

analyze the urban planning in the context of capitalist production of space, considering a

theoretical and methodological analysis that allows to define the object of study as a concrete

reality, in order to outline a critical reflection on the nature of urban planning as a catalyst of

social disparities and the need of them to establish a capitalist order, mainly based in the

unequal access to housing.

Keywords: capitalism, city, urban planning, production of space, housing.