Access to the city for everyone: Spatial and planning strategies to counteract residential segregation in Bogotá

The study and comprehension of cities development processes becomes nowadays more relevant not only for academics but also for planners involved in practice, policy makers and other groups concerned with urban space shaping. On one hand, it is already known by the ‘state of world population report’ of United Nations, that about one in two persons of the worldwide population now live in an urban area (UNPF, 2011). Secondly, it is recognized that cities are places where production, circulation and consumption of assets and ideas take place by the means of spatial proximity. Although this condition is suitable for the concentration of wealth in cities, it also affects their socio spatial configuration when is exclusively based in the profit making capacities of land use value (Lefebvre, 1996 [1968], 2003 [1970]; Castells, 1977 [1972]; Harvey, 1973 in Brenner et al., 2009). Moreover, urban development especially under capitalists systems, is set in the middle of social and political clashes and embedded in conflicts between strategies for capital accumulation and satisfaction of social needs (ibidem). These situations have raised concerns about human rights and the role of these ones in the urban environment (McCann, 2002; Harvey, 2008). Moreover, the right to the city is now considered in international debates (HIC-AL, 2008), and its definition as a concept now entails discussion in theory and practice of urban planning and city management. It is within those fields, due to the capacity they have to shape reality, where it is imperative to keep asking: what should be considered socially just in matter of planning policies, strategies and instruments? With this in mind, the graduation project presented in this report: Access to the city for everyone: Planning and spatial strategies to counteract residential segregation in Bogotá attempts to reflect on the broad question mentioned above in a specific context -Bogotá city- and on a specific subject –the articulation of planning and spatial strategies for the counteraction of residential segregation negative effects and provision of social housing in inner city areas of Bogotá-. It does so, by reflecting first about socio spatial segregation in the context of Latin America, to subsequently study its different expressions for the case of Bogotá along with one aspect of the phenomenon: the provision of formal development of housing for low income population groups. Furthermore, an articulation between spatial interventions and planning instruments in different inner city areas is proposed as part of a de-concentration and diversification strategy of the social housing supply in the city.

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Bogota
residential segregation
affordable housing
social integration
densification

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