Abstract

JIMENEZ MANTILLA, Fernando. Towards a Consolidated Urban Territory of Bogotá Capital District. rev.ing. [online]. 2009, n.29, pp.96-99. ISSN 0121-4993.

The Metropolitan Region of Bogota is the largest urban conglomerate in the country with a population close to eight million inhabitants in 2005, it comprises the Capital District as the central city and the interconected sistem of sixteen cities and towns settled as a growing conurbation in the westwern Sabana of the Bogotá River; the demographic, economic and funtional dinamics, have made this conglomerate, the primacy region in the country. Since mid twentieth century, when the city reached a population of seven hundred thousand inhabitants as most of the Latin American capitals, it have grown in a highly accelerated manner, with a population projection close to ten millon for the year 2020. The central city has developed into a compact shape with a strong control on urban sprawl, and a well define urban structure. Nevertheless, this is not a consolidated urban territory. Different areas within the built city have not yet developed or on the contrary healthy urban areas developed in the past have reached strong precess of decadence or obsolescence. The Urban Development Plan for Bogotá enphacize a strong policy on developmen or redevelopment areas at the zonal scale, the intermediate street system, and the strengthening of secondary urban activity centers.

Keywords : Bogotá; urban structure.

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