THE URBAN ARTICULATION OF GATED COMMUNITY

Case study in the town of Suba in Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Authors

  • Irene Arango Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.10109

Abstract

Nowadays, more than a third of the homes in Bogotá live in gated communities, which is since the year 2000 the predominant form of construction of formal housing in the city. This new urban pattern segregates populations through enclosures, leads to the privatization of security and the transformation of public space. The proliferation of the city model of gated communities and shopping centers generates an urban disarticulation and shows an important planning issue. Therefore, guidelines and strategies for the urban articulation of the gated communities of a city part in Bogotá are proposed, which are based on a planimetrical analysis of the study area. Suba was chosen to carry out the study, because it is one of the localities with the largest agglomeration of gated communities in the city and, therefore, an ideal case study for this global urban phenomenon.

Keywords: Gated communities, residential enclaves, urban patterns, urban tissue

Author Biography

Irene Arango, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá

Arquitecta y estudiante de Planificación Urbana y Regional con grado en marzo de 2021.

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Published

2022-01-19

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SIIU2021_BARCELONA