Abstract

MARTINEZ-TORO, Pedro Martín. Real estate market and the production of the metropolitan archipelago. The metropolitanization of Cali. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.1, pp.9-24. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v28n1.40237.

In a deductive exercise, which starts from the postulations of Janoschka and Borsdorf on the model of the Latin American city classified as segregated and fragmented, we show that the recent urban growth of the territory of influence of the metropolis of Cali is expressed as a polycentric and segmented archipelago. This pattern of metropolitan growth is fundamentally supported in the cellular development of closed residential complexes and shopping centers, allowed and promoted by neoliberal state policies that have empowered the real estate and financial sector in their capitalist operations in an evident manner since the decade of 1970.

Keywords : metropolization; gated communities; Cali; urban patterns; archipelago; cell growth.

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