Estrategias de recomposición del tejido urbano sobre la carrera séptima y la ladera de los cerros orientales, localidad de Usaquén

Abstract

Bogota has grown urbanistically in an excessive way since the mid-twentieth century, due to internal migration and population growth as a result of the country's conflicts. This uncontrolled urban growth gave way to the formation of informal housing groups located towards the periphery of the city. With the increase of these occupations, the district finds the need to act before this problem, for which, through the District Department of Habitat, determines the analysis of the affected areas in the capital is developed by means of the delimitation of polygons, that is, territories specific and numbered where settlements of this type are presented. The analysis of these polygons resulted in understanding that most of these occupations are located on the Cerros Orientales. Additionally, it is found that Usaquén is the most affected location by this phenomenon, with 47.8% of the total territory analyzed occupied by informal housing. In the present investigation, it is decided to determine the problems caused by these settlements in Usaquén, understanding that the development of informal housing, lacking adequate urban planning, affects the hills, through the extraction of construction materials (quarries) and, mainly, the fragmentation of the urban morphology and the emergence of urban voids that can be potentially developed