El derecho a la ciudad: glocalización y presión inmobiliaria en Chapinero Alto, Bogotá años 2014-2016

Abstract

The population change that has been evident in the Juan XXIII and Los Olivos neighborhoods, in which inhabitants with low resources are replaced by inhabitants with high purchasing power (gentrification), is not an isolated process. It has been reproduced in different countries and has been extensively studied in those called developed or belonging to the first world, where access to housing in certain sectors of the main cities (such as New York, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, among others) is very restricted for the middle and lower middle class. The study of cities in these countries goes beyond gentrification and its negative effects on the right to the city; It is usually related to global capital accumulation dynamics, since the cities are the business, financial and commercial centers of different countries that allow global capital accumulation activities to be carried out. Access to housing becomes an indicator of the degree of equality in the enjoyment of rights in the city between inhabitants, but also gives an idea of ​​how permeate the institutions of government are with neoliberal criteria of the city in favor of accumulation of capital. Gentrification thus becomes an indicator of the presence of neoliberal ideas of a global city that, following the strategy of accumulation by dispossession, jeopardize the rights of citizens to live and build the city.

The population change that has been evident in the Juan XXIII and Los Olivos neighborhoods, in which inhabitants with low resources are replaced by inhabitants with high purchasing power (gentrification), is not an isolated process. It has been reproduced in different countries and has been extensively studied in those called developed or belonging to the first world, where access to housing in certain sectors of the main cities (such as New York, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, among others) is very restricted for the middle and lower middle class. The study of cities in these countries goes beyond gentrification and its negative effects on the right to the city; It is usually related to global capital accumulation dynamics, since the cities are the business, financial and commercial centers of different countries that allow global capital accumulation activities to be carried out. Access to housing becomes an indicator of the degree of equality in the enjoyment of rights in the city between inhabitants, but also gives an idea of ​​how permeate the institutions of government are with neoliberal criteria of the city in favor of accumulation of capital. Gentrification thus becomes an indicator of the presence of neoliberal ideas of a global city that, following the strategy of accumulation by dispossession, jeopardize the rights of citizens to live and build the city.