Dearq

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Urban facilities as instruments to build city and citizenship

No. 11 (2012-12-01)
  • Ángela María Franco Calderón
    1Universidad del Valle, Colombia angelafranco2011@gmail.com Arquitecta de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Especialista en Ciudad y Proyecto Urbano de la Universites d’Aix-Marseille y l’École d’Architecture de Marseille-Luminy, Magíster en Sociología de la Universidad del Valle. Profesora, investigadora y directora de proyectos de extensión en urbanismo en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Valle. Recientemente termino estudios en los Estados Unidos en el Special Program of Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Sandra Karime Zabala Corredor
    2Gerente Urbania Consultores skzabalac@gmail.com Arquitecta, máster en Diseño Urbano, Oxford Brookes University. Máster en Restauración y Rehabilitación del Patrimonio Arquitectónico y Urbano, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Consultora especializada en temas urbanos, de ordenamiento territorial y patrimonio inmueble, en especial en centros urbanos e históricos
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq11.2012.03

Abstract

Urban facilities have historically played a fundamental role as spaces that allow citizens to exercise their right over the city. How do architecture and urbanism actually contribute to guarantee this right? How do the facilities give an advantage to the construction of the city and citizens through better environmental integration? In some cities in the country the development of new and important facilities, constructed by improving already existing infrastructure, has led to the reduction of an accumulated “social debt”. However, there are still many challenges to be faced on the road to strengthening the processes of social inclusion and to achieving the optimal functioning of these spaces in relation to their environment.

Keywords: collective facilities, civic use, social inclusion, urban impact, land demarcation, sustainability