Distrito salud, estrategias para revitalización de sectores urbanos en condiciones de deterioro barrio la Sabana

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the 20s, the downtown of the capital was enjoying a great prestige and a great cultural life, besides the fact that in him the political power of the country was centering. With the breach of the colonial tracing, there were big advances of infrastructure, as the arrival of the Avenida Caracas in the year 1938, the high class began to move towards the north of Bogotá for diverse political conflicts as the Bogotazo, doing that later the place was taken advantage by the merchants. Because of this decision, the downtown began to come important industries and one of the most important stations of the streetcar, attracting great quantity of population. Bordering neighborhoods to the station of La Sabana, were typical for offering great quantity of housing in rent and accomodations. With the decrease of the streetcar as way of transport, the accomodations began to transform in motels and tenancies for population of low resources. Hereby, in the downtown it was diminishing little by little his representation of residential uses, dotacionales and recreative, for what several real estate remained left and in condition of deterioration; acquiring a principally commercial and industrial identity, doing that the sector is one of the most crowded and that in turn they are zones that possess a road chaos and high indexes of insecurity. There proposes itself then an economic different activity in the neighborhood La Sabana focused on the service of health, in which there is articulated the formal and informal trade by new uses, across the public space and that in turn links itself with the patrimonial existing buildings by means of diverse urban strategies for his revitalización and connection