Resumo

SALDIAS BARRENECHE, Carmenza. Cities and Regions, Territorial Reality of Development. rev.ing. [online]. 2009, n.29, pp.82-95. ISSN 0121-4993.

The city is the real place in society where people live and perform their activities. Since its creation linked to the field, which makes it sustainable and productive: providing water, environmental services, food, employment and sources of inputs for processing and exchange, forming a diverse structure and supported by endogenous factors of production and consumption, conditions for strategic urban economic growth. But sprawl at the expense of rural areas limits the viability of human life under proper conditions in a given territory. Given the environmental risks and costs, social and economic future generations would pay to continue this trend, it seems appropriate to rectify. The model of territorial occupation of the Sabana del río Bogotá, urban network in a rural area, would restore the ecological balance, economic productivity and social equity and promote good governance and integration into the Capital Region.

Palavras-chave : Environmental sustainability; mobility; regional planning; territorial ordering; urban development; urbanism.

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