Estrategias de Planificación Urbana en la reconfiguración de territorios informales de la Comuna 8 Villa Hermosa - Medellín: Lecciones aprendidas y retos (2008-2019)

Abstract

Medellín is a city that has gone through different periods of urban and social transformation, as a result of its accelerated urban and demographic growth, driven by various factors such as forced displacement and the search for opportunities by foreign populations who see the Antioquia capital as a new territory to inhabit. These are partly responsible for the formation of informal settlements on the outskirts of the city, with one example being the Comuna 8 Villa Hermosa, which presents various socio-spatial problems such as housing deficits, limited access to public collective city services, violence and power conflicts in the territories, territorial inequality, poverty, and socio-spatial segregation. As a result, since 2008 and in successive Municipal administrations until 2019, alternative urban planning strategies were implemented for the informal territories of Comuna 8, which are complementary to the territorial planning instruments defined in Law 388 of 1997. The following strategies were applied: Integral Urban Projects - PUI Centroriental, Sustainable Neighborhood Program - MIB (Integral Neighborhood Improvement), Metropolitan Green Belt (Jardín Circunvalar Pilot Project), which later form the Integral Model of Intervention in Informal Territories - MIITI in the central-eastern zone of Medellín. These strategies attempt to adapt and reconfigure, through adaptive planning, different periods of interventions and overlapping planning of these complex and vulnerable realities in these territories, presenting progress and limitations in the territorial transformation of these settlements.