URBAN PLANNING AND PUBLIC SPACE IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Planned and constructed public space in Bogotá's Transmilenio corridors

Abstract

For Bogotá, Transmilenio changed the image of the city and the way of transportation for its inhabitants; however, neither the quantity nor the quality of public space is commensurate. In this sense, the document analyzes the urban planning guidelines for the generation of public space associated with mass transit systems, based on what is set forth in public policy documents, and how these are concretized at the local pedestrian scale through the platform booklet, which is the document that condenses the design and implementation criteria, and is in turn, the common point of the public space and mobility master plans. The document explores the correspondences and tensions between these plans that account for the disarticulation of the urban physical space and reinforce the idea of prioritizing the transportation system over the pedestrian.

Keywords: Public space, Urban planning, Public policies, Mass transportation.

Topic: 3. Public space and urban project in the contemporary metropolis.