Abstract

PULIDO, Nubis. Metropolitan Urban Borders in Venezuela in the Light of New Laws and Urban Projects. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2014, vol.23, n.1, pp.15-38. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v23n1.41086.

Abstract In Venezuela, new policy decisions embodied in laws enacted by the central government have been added to the traditional factors motivating the dynamics of metropolitan expansions. The implementation of those laws has contributed to accelerating the expansion of metropolitan borders, paradoxically reinforcing an improvised and uncoordinated process of incorporation of new low-income developments lacking in infrastructure, adequate facilities, and the services necessary to guarantee the quality of urban life. Furthermore, this has been done at the expense of ecologically valuable and vulnerable spaces. These areas constitute territorial emergencies that deserve specific and immediate attention since they are the territorial forms featuring the greatest and most recent changes, and should be the focus of interventions aimed at territorial ordering.

Keywords : agglomerations; urban borders; metropolitan development; territorial emergencies; tendencies; Venezuela.

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