This paper refers to a research paper on de suburban area around the city of Santa Rosa, (La Pampa), both in its placement as in the processes of different nature that contribute to define the city. It is placed in the general context of the capacity to sustain urban policies that aim at the armonic development of the city which can be announced in the development of four basic points: productivity, to capacity to be governed, the capacity of being inhabited, and the capacity of being sustained. The paper develops some conceptual points, previous which provide basic contextual elements, basic for the analysis of the object to be studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]