Gobernanza metropolitana como estrategia para planificar y gestionar el desarrollo de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de Toluca 1 / Metropolitan governance as a strategy for planning and managing development of the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Toluca

Governance, as a new form of government, does not imply the creation of new territorial political-administrative jurisdictions. The aim of this paper is to analyze ways in which the governance model can improve the coordination between metropolitan actors to plan and manage the development of the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Toluca. The analysis methodology presented in this article is derived from the ratio of two phenomena: the first one is the role of the State in the metropolitan area, and second is the consolidation of its political status to plan and manage metropolitan development. Both phenomena should be part of the State Reform and be linked, on the one hand to the process of governance and, second, to the transformation of metropolitan public policy. As main results, the authors find that the planning and management of metropolitan development lack a basic territorial governance model, as agencies for this purpose have been restricted to the political will, only perceiving a broad relationship between government and investors without clear opportunities for the participation of civil society.