Abstract

LOPEZ-BORBON, Walter. Urban Informality in the Surrounding Municipalities of Bogotá Measured from the Index of Informality. Territ. [online]. 2023, n.49, pp.1-.  Epub Jan 11, 2024. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.12442.

The habitat production model in capitalist countries in general, and Latin America in particular, is based on the dynamics generated by land consumption. In Colombia, housing maintains a condition of merchandise and functions under the laws of the market even though the 1991 Constitution established it as a right. Given the current quantitative and qualitative deficit, and the imbalance resulting from inequity and the state of poverty of large sectors of the population, urban informality is perpetuated as the only housing alternative. This form of the social construction of the territory not only occurs in cities like Bogotá but is also reproduced in neighboring municipalities. If there is information to characterize the municipalities, it is possible to carry out preventive actions that mitigate the impact of informality; hence the Informality Index, which measures and records the conditions in these municipalities.

Keywords : Urban informality; index; municipalities; territory.

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