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Bogotá and Medellín: Architecture and Politics
Author(s) -
Castro Lorenzo,
Echeverri Alejandro
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1246
Subject(s) - politics , architecture , urban infrastructure , scale (ratio) , sociology , urban planning , political science , economy , geography , civil engineering , cartography , archaeology , law , economics , engineering
In the last 15 years, Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia's two largest cities, have undergone urban renaissances. These are a direct result of a political will to tackle the social, economic and physical segregation caused by the large‐scale urban migrations of the 1970s and 1980s, which resulted in informal developments that were often isolated from central urban areas with no infrastructure. Lorenzo Castro and Alejandro Echeverri describe the shared experiences and distinct approaches of each city. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.