{"id":2749,"date":"2025-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bye.nexsa.cl\/columna-de-opinion-concesion-de-parques-urbanos-disminuir-la-brecha-verde\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T01:17:22","slug":"opinion-column-urban-park-concessions-reducing-the-green-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/columna-de-opinion-concesion-de-parques-urbanos-disminuir-la-brecha-verde\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion Column: \u201cUrban Park Concessions: Reducing the Green Gap\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>published an opinion column titled \u201cUrban Park Concessions: Reducing the Green Gap,\u201d written by Alejandra Vargas, agronomist, and Nicol\u00e1s Balmaceda, partner at Barros &amp; Err\u00e1zuriz.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the challenges Chile faces in ensuring equitable access to green areas and proposes the public\u2013private concession model as a viable alternative to improve the management, maintenance, and financing of urban parks.<\/p>\n<p>The authors emphasize that advancing in this direction would help reduce gaps, promote sustainability, and build greener and more equitable cities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/public.izimedia.io\/viewNews\/39D82E7DBED711F0BD790EB07535E017&amp;ALTTmljb2xhcyUyMGJhbG1hY2V%E2%80%A6\">column here<\/a> and the full research <a href=\"https:\/\/politicaspublicas.uc.cl\/publicacion\/modelo-para-la-concesion-de-parques-publicos-urbanos-viabilidad-beneficios-y-desafios\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newspaper El Mercurio published an opinion column titled \u201cUrban Park Concessions: Reducing the Green Gap,\u201d written by Alejandra Vargas, agronomist, and Nicol\u00e1s Balmaceda, partner at Barros &amp; Err\u00e1zuriz. The article discusses the challenges Chile<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bye_card_image":0,"_bye_lawyers":[],"_bye_areas":[],"_bye_document":0,"_bye_document_url":"","_bye_document_label":"","_bye_old_id":28417,"_bye_old_path":"\/columna-de-opinion-concesion-de-parques-urbanos-disminuir-la-brecha-verde\/","_bye_translation":"https:\/\/backup-bye.nexsa.cl\/opinion-column-urban-park-concessions-reducing-the-green-gap\/?lang=en","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"tipo_publicacion":[6],"industria":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"tipo_publicacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo_publicacion?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"industria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industria?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}