TOPOFILIA Y CARTOGRAFÍAS PARTICIPATIVAS EN EL SUR DE CHILE: La experiencia comparada en las ciudades de Temuco-Padre las Casas, Valdivia y el Gran Concepción/TOPOPHILIA AND PARTICIPATORY MAPPING IN SOUTHERN CHILE: The comparative experience in the cities of Temuco-Padre las Casas, Valdivia y el Gran Concepción

We discuss interdisciplinary the notion and performance of the notion of topophilia from so-called "spatial turn"; and advances in the comparative discovery of spaces and valued urban dynamics that generate strong identification among citizens, especially those that reinforce social cohesion and social integration in cities exposed to strong processes of transformation and fragmentation in recent years, as is the Gran Concepción, Temuco-Padre las Casas, and Valdivia. Using a methodological strategy of participatory, dialogic and expressive character, such as collective mapping. Finally some guidelines are proposed to include such initiatives in the framework of integrated urban planning and sustainable development of cities.