INTERPRETATION OF THE ROOTS AND CONSOLIDATION OF A TECHNOCRATIC URBAN PLANNING. Bogotá 1940 - 2000. General urban planning for the city and urban heritage policies.

Abstract

The research maintains that during the decades of study since 1940, Bogotá’s public administration adopted an uninterrupted succession of urban planning and urban heritage conservation plans which developed various modalities of a single line of thought, a technocratic and conservative urbanism. Identifying the origins, characterizing, evaluating and discussing the evolution and modalities adopted by this current of urbanism in Bogotá, in two spatial areas, the old sector and the city as a whole, became of interest. Specifically, to discuss two types of relationship between these territories of the city was proposed: the first, in which a notable differentiation between the old sector and the rest of the urban area predominates, as if they were foreign realities despite having essential links; the second, characterized by functional relationships between the two areas, particularly in terms of the benefit for the speculative real estate market. This text discusses heritage and urban planning policies during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, based on the expressed context. 

Keywords: Technocratic urbanism, heritage in a historical-artistic key, spatial social segregation.

Thematic block: Theory and history of the city.