CORREDOR URBANO E HISTÓRICO AVENIDA DE LOS COMUNEROS. Revitalización urbana entre el sector sur y norte del centro tradicional de Bogotá

Abstract

Modern urbanism movement has generated a paradigm in worldwide urban planning approach. This sought a type of territorial planning that would achieve an easy and rapid urbanization process, with roads that clearly fulfilled the function of communicating one point with another. The city was designed in a single purpose, whether it was the buildings or the vehicular traffic, both in a disjointed way and leaving aside the human scale. Therefore, being designed with private vehicles as the only users and protagonists, these have presented notorious problems, acting as an “urban disease” that spreads and can occur anywhere in the world, which in this case has the name of urban fragmentation and has a secondary effect as an urban deterioration. Colombia has taken this urban planning reference in its capital cities and this is how “urban diseases” have been irremediably replicated to the detriment of the quality of urban life. In Bogotá, large roads have been built in the consolidated city, one of these is Avenida Comuneros, which is located between the southern and northern sectors of the traditional center of the city, since its design does not contemplate the human scale or the historical and patrimonial determinants of the sector, has generated a fragmentation in the urban structure at a social, cultural and physical level, leading to the leaving and general deterioration of this place. It is in this sense that the “Corredor Urbano e Histórico Avenida de los Comuneros” proposes the revitalization of the urban space associated with this Avenue in order to weave the fragmented urban structure, in such a way that the southern and northern sectors of the traditional center of Bogotá being articulated with each other and become the permanent and frequent destination place for Bogota residents and tourists as a reference for urban corridors with humanized, sustainable urban design, with a sense of place and an increase in the quality of urban life.