An inside look at Bogotá’s urban renewal from broad urban stories to everyday tales

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Defense date2012-01
PublisherInternational Forum on Urbanism
Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
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Abstract
The Colombian capital has become recently a model of urban development thanks to a successful process of
urban renewal that fostered the insertion of the city in the international scene. In order to understand the
complexity of Bogotá’s transformation, it is essential to examine the objective causes that have determined the
changes and the discourses that have shaped it. An analysis of the most important facts of Bogotá’s
transformation, of the image of the city promoted by the discourses of the experts and of the narratives created
by the residents, permits to better understand the process globally. In addition, confronted with the observation
of new emerging dynamics in renovated areas, this body of knowledge permits to recognize situated
controversies and bring out certain lessons about urban project management that can be learned from the case
of Bogotá.
CitationCifuentes Quin, Camilo Andrés; Tixier, Nicolas. An inside look at Bogotá’s urban renewal from broad urban stories to everyday tales. A: Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism. "6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU): TOURBANISM, Barcelona, 25-27 gener". Barcelona: IFoU, 2012, p. 1-11.
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