Villavicencio heterotópica: una indagación sobre sus imaginarios urbanos y la apropiación del espacio público.

Abstract

Currently, the city of Villavicencio is nationally recognized as “La Puerta del Llano”, to which have been attributed geographic, social and cultural characteristics that stablish themselves in the collective imaginary y remain in the people’s memory. However, the way in which citizens appropriate of their public spaces, not only the activities themselves but the way in which they live and experiment the space, doesn’t totally fit that image that stays in the collective memory. The purpose of this thesis is to built an imaginary of city, by its citizens, that allows to understand the different dimensions of appropriation of the public space, in the zones of the Historical Center, Avenue 40 and Villa Julia, of Villavicencio, taking into count historical, documentary and perceptive elements that allow to orientate different perspectives and determinate the factors that influence the use of these spaces, and that should be considered at the moment of designing an urban proposal, with the idea of using the public space and to guarantee the appropriation of it by the community itself. This researching is involved into one of the focus lines of the faculty, corresponding to “territory”, just as the transverse axis of patrimony, graphic expression, theory and history, with the topic of “place, city, territory”.