Let´s Save the Colombian Rural Urban Space
The rural space close to the Colombian large cities, presents a critical panorama due to its borderline situation between a field that has practically been abandoned as developmental, economic, and social project in the last sixty years, and a city submitted to an intensive urbanization process, whi...
| Autor Principal: | Arango-Escobar, Gilberto |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2013
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cvyu/article/view/5499 |
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The rural space close to the Colombian large cities, presents a critical panorama due to its borderline situation between a field that has practically been abandoned as developmental, economic, and social project in the last sixty years, and a city submitted to an intensive urbanization process, which in a short period has changed the demography, economy, and culture of the country. In general terms, this critical rural scene presents the following characteristics: Uncontrolled housing urbanization VIS, spontaneous, for recreation and second homes. Precarious Peri urbanizations, following urban habitat standards. Poor rural communities, uprooted and low-income work. Progressive deterioration of strategic ecosystems, biodiversity, water sources, and agrarian landscape. Rural homogenization Fragmented and low-impact rural public policies Plan ECO – correctional strategies – elaborated by the School of Habitat form the National Colombian University in Medellin. It suggests a management alternative for these territories to reach sustainable development under the idea of constructing a “new rural concept.” |
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