Getsemaní: Turismo, desplazamiento y otras facetas de la gentrificación

Abstract

This article analyzes the gentrification of the neighborhood in the city of Cartagena de Indias, from the tourist orientation that assumed the city as an architectural showcase for Colombia and the world. From a qualita tive approach and based on rent-gap or potential income differential theories, gentrification and social inequality by Neil Smith and David Harvey, and demand-based theory by David Ley, the process of gentrification, beyond of the transformation of urban space. For this purpose, various investigative tools were used, such as interviews with local actors, observation of the social dynamics of the neighborhood, documentary revision of Territorial Planning Plans, photographic and cartographic records. The results show a direct correlation between policies implemented since the 1970s, aimed at tourism and urban development that led to the process of gentrification. The change in land use, the impact of the relocation of the central market and the construction of the convention center become the genesis of the urban regeneration process in the sector with positive results in the spatial physical aspect, which in turn they strongly produce the beginning of population displacement.