Articuladores urbanos como estrategia de planificación para la integración de la ciudad dispersa. Estudio de caso: barrio Albania, Bucaramanga, Colombia

Abstract

The city of Bucaramanga, like other Latin American cities and the world, has suffered the impact of modernity and globalization; urban expansion, rapid population growth, financial and territorial speculation have generated a fragmented city, in which the public space has been losing its generating characteristics of social cohesion with structures that are inefficient or obsolete in the face of the new dynamics of territorial configuration. The lack of urban continuity is a problem that occurs with greater force in the peripheries, the fragmented city is not only characterized by the discontinuity of its poles, but also by the inefficient internal communication of its neighborhoods. This research seeks to establish possibilities for the generation of new spaces, infrastructure elements and communication channels as points of articulation in the improvement of the urban network, including as part of the city, recognizing the spatial and functional structure of the place make an approach to points that allow the improvement of the urban fabric. As a case study we chose the Albanian Neighborhood belonging to the commune 14 Morrorico, which shows its physical characteristics seeking to adequately diagnose their situation, and then continue with a reflexive phase that will allow establishing strategies aimed at this area of the city in order to integrate it into a more compact city model, seeking to improve the quality of life of a scenario originated in processes of appropriation of the invasive territory that were generated from the need for life and subsistence, evidencing the break in the promise of cities for everybody.