Más allá de la fragmentación física del territorio. Injerencia de las normativas de ordenamiento territorial en las transformaciones de Chía

Abstract

Abstract: Cities are not uniform spaces, but a mosaic of cultures, territorialities, people, natural resources and ways of life. Their growth tends to be accompanied by heterogenization processes; however, when these trigger conflict, they increase the socio-economic inequalities and affect the internal cohesion of the territory and the construction of a shared vision on this, there is talk of urban fragmentation. The territorial planning defined as the arrangement of a territory and its actors can become a catalyst or an engine of fragmentation, as in the case of Chia a Colombian municipality, near to Bogotá Capital district. In this way, this paper will focus on the description of the historical conformation of the municipality to then analyze the role of the Land-use Management Plan (POT by its acronym in Spanish) in the process of socio-spatial fracture, between 2000 and 2015. To this end, the compilation and analysis of documents related to the municipality and the urban fragmentation concept were carried out and this information was supplemented with the collection of primary information through interviews and workshops with the population. The results showed how the change in local regulation had an impact on both the ways of the land use and the reshaping of the socio-spatial relations. In conceiving the urban fragmentation, beyond the tangible, this work discusses the morphological discontinuities, as well as the social disconnections resulting from the implementation of a new territorial regulation and advocates an integral understanding of the urban fragmentation concept.