Abstract

GOMEZ NAVAS, Diana  and  SERNA DIMAS, Adrián. Development Processes in City Growth and Informal Housing. The Case of Informal Settlements in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá, Colombia. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.20. ISSN 1853-3655.

The urbanization of Bogotá has been characterized by the difficulties that the poorest sec-tors have had to be able to access urban soil and housing. This situation acquired dramatic dimensions during the second half of the 20th century when migratory processes towards the city were intensifed by factors such as rural violence, which generated the excessive growth of population. This situation resulted in the multiplication of informal slums in different city localities. Based on one of the oldest informal settlements on the eastern hillsides, this article shows how they developed over time, what strategies were used for their formalization and improvement and, finally, the different conficts that neighborhood communities had to resolve to claim their right to urban soil and housing, in opposition to different private and public agencies.

Keywords : City construction processes, informal housing, neighborhoods formalization and legalization.

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