Territorios simultáneos : formas de territorialización de la Sabana de Bogotá
"Simultaneous Territories" is an analysis of the territorial morphogenesis of the Bogotan Savannah. lt is an interpretive reading of the process of configuration of the urban morphology of the Bogotan Savannah, of her origin and evolution throughout history. The Bogotan Savannah is a high...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/397719 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/397719 https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-98094 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Urbanisme 71 |
| Sumario: | "Simultaneous Territories" is an analysis of the territorial morphogenesis of the Bogotan Savannah. lt is an interpretive reading of the process of configuration of the urban morphology of the Bogotan Savannah, of her origin and evolution throughout history. The Bogotan Savannah is a high plateau at an altitude of 2600 meter above sea level, embedded in the center of the Colombian Andes. The Savannah counts with approximately 9,5 million inhabitants, of which about 80% live in Bogotá and the remaining part in the rest of the Savannah. The Bogotan Savannah faces a strong urbanizing dynamic that threatens to consume her entirely; it is increasingly difficult to identify the boundaries between city and countryside, while the political and administrative borders fade against the rise of an urban reality that goes far beyond them. Today, Bogotá is the Savannah and the Savannah is Bogotá; Bogotá is witnessing the appearance of a new urban reality that in this research has been called the Savannah City. Throughout history, the Bogotan Savannah has been inhabited by different cultures, and each and every one of them has reorganized her according to the social and spatial circumstances and determinants of the moment. This research argues that the morphology of the contemporary territory is the result of the overlap of these previous forms of spatial reorganization, which have been called forms of territorialization. Each of these different forrns of territorialization existed ala certain moment in history, overlapping, mixing, combining and contaminating with previous and future forms, until it reached the territorial morphology that we know today. In other words: it is about understanding the contemporary territory not only as an assembly of constructed and unconstructed spaces, though rather as a mosaic of different times. The general objective of this research is to build an interpretive model of the process of configuration of the territorial form that the Savannah City exposes today. The construction of this model is linked with two specific objectives, which on their turn are interrelated: the first is to find the primal territorial structure on the basis of which the territory originated and evolved up until today and from which, second objective ,the various forms of territorialization can be identified that have existed throughout history. To this end, the research follows a methodology of diachronic deconstruction of the morphologic characteristics of the contemporary territory, through analytical cartographic mapping, aimed at identifying the permanences and ruptures. The analysis of the permanences of the traces over time is useful to find the primal territorial structure, while the analysis of the ruptures in the process of the configuration of the territorial structure and in the language with which the territory has been built helps to detect the various forms of territorialization. As a result of this methodology of analysis, it has been possible to identify five forms of territorialization that, according to their spatial structure, have been named as follows: aureolar, concentric, eccentric, insular and reticular. The first two correspond to the pre-Hispanic era, the third to the colonial period and the last two to more recent times. In addition, two phases of physical and environmental transformation of the Savannah can be identified: flooding and drainage, which are directly linked to the configuration of the spatial structure on which the current territorial form made its entrance and evolved. Although understanding the processes of the past that made possible the present spatial reality does not reveal a clear picture for the future, it does help us to develop the necessary tools to trace the paths to reach it. |
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