Vivienda social en Medellín: propuesta de un modelo habitacional diferente para Ciudadela Nuevo Occidente

Abstract

What are the possible transformations in the new city development proposed in Ciudadela Nuevo Occiendente? And what progression in the living condition has been reached by the people who went to live there? Those are the two questions we attempt to respond in this article through the study case Ciudadela Nuevo Occiendente. The project intends to generate, and still does, a replicable integral improvement of large-scale urban planning to formally access to urban land. The achievements reached an improvement in new construction techniques, providing housing and covering aqueducts nets or consolidated important institutional processes. However these physical changes failed to transform the social model established there.