Barbosa hacia un encuentro de ciudad: planificación estratégica como herramienta de desarrollo urbano integral

Abstract

The municipality of Barbosa is located in the south of the department of Santander, characterized by its privileged geographical location consolidated on the bank of the Suarez River. It has an area of 46.43 km2 of which 29% belongs to the urban area, where there are dynamics that favor an economic development for the region, with the sale of agricultural products and tourism. However, the urban planning of the municipality is not consistent with the needs and problems that arise, creating effects on the territory because the strategies generated in the Territorial Planning Scheme (EOT, 2002), do not provide adequate solutions in relation to the current dynamics of the municipality.Therefore, the project seeks to propose a model of integral development through strategic planning in the urban area of the municipality, according to the analysis from the functional structures (main ecological, functional and services and socioeconomic), in order to generate a diagnosis and from this provide solutions to the physical and spatial problems that are presented there, resulting in a series of proposals that respond to the character and needs of the urban area of the municipality.