As stated by the same author 2010, the economic openness that took place in the mid 70s displaced urban proposals, as well as rationalist and normative urban planning, consolidating a strictly capitalist logic in metropolitan development. Such logic took a dominant role in the early 80s. A series of studies carried out in Chile, such as Brain et al.
Para el mismo autor 2010, la apertura económica iniciada a mediados de los 1970s desplazó gradualmente a las propuestas del urbanismo y la planificación urbana normativa y racionalista, consolidando la lógica estrictamente capitalista en el desarrollo metropolitano que en Chile adquirió hegemonía indisputable a partir del inicio de la década de los 1980s.