Modos de habitar y expansión urbana en barrios de borde: caso San Bernardino, Bosa

Abstract

The following research shows the current situation of the occidental side of Bogota city, specifically in Bosa, San Bernardino neighborhood. In this zone, it is evident to see settlement modes that have settled a city with social, economic, and urban structure transformations. All this is a consequence of political intentions which objectives have been to organize and project the territory. Everything based on the governability of the city over the years. However, the consolidation of the neighborhoods on the border side of the city has not been possible. The resources used by strategic planning have not been effective. Since 2000, with the Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial (POT) the surrounding neighborhoods that were before villages become urban expansion land and subsequently developed through partial plans. Nonetheless, the analysis made to the partial Campo Verde plan in San Bernardino neighborhood as a solution to the housing deficit of social and priority interest, under typology in bars located in superblocks, evidences a clear fragility at the social, economic and urban level. As a result, a planning contribution is expected in terms of the occupation of the territory. Additionally, it shows how inhabitants are organized and how they distribute the area in such a way they do not follow the standards. Thus, it is possible to plan according to the reality of the territory.