La programación de la vivienda y el desarrollo urbano en la política y los planes de desarrollo

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Monitoreo del plan de desarrollo: Manizales, Colombia

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The Digital Divide in the University: The Appropriation of ICT in Higher Education Students from Bogota, Colombia

The growth and integration of ICTs in the global economy have created conditions that profoundly affect our society, dividing communities between those who effectively appropriate these resources and those who do not, what is called the digital divide. This exploratory study seeks to propose and validate ways of assessing this phenomenon in higher education, from the construction of a model and a comprehensive methodology that value contextual conditions, in addition to measuring access factors and motivation for use, that have been employed in previous research. To obtain indications about the behavior of this phenomenon, we developed research with students from three universities in Bogota, administering 566 surveys in four phases that would test the variables proposed in the model. The results show that the variables of the model link causally, with the strongest relations between education, attitude towards ICTs and ICT application. Although students have good access to ICTs and high levels of education, no strong relationship was found in regards to perceived impact on production. This may be explained by a superficial appropriation of ICT, due to a context that is alien to its conditions of origin (industrialism, innovation), poor quality of education and economies not centered around R&D.

Barrio La Cecilia, Bogota, Colombia

El barrio de "La Cecilia" es un barrio ilegal por encontrarse en un terreno protegido, por lo tanto es necesario frenar la expansión y generar un nievo límite. En paralelo la ausencia de equipamientos y de espacio público, unido a un saneamiento sanitario existente precario hacen que no se cumplan los criterios de Habitabilidad Básica en el barrio. El proyecto que se propone plantea, aprovechando el plan de intervención en el espacio protegido de los Cerros Orientales, la creación de un nuevo parque lineal de acceso al río que genere un nuevo límite para evitar la expansión. El nuevo equipamiento estará relacionado directamente con las actividades del parque ya que será un reflejo de la percepción de los visitantes del reformado entorno natural. Por otro lado se plantea una nueva ordenanza que regule las futuras construcciones dentro del barrio y se propone una renovación del sistema de saneamiento urbano basado en un biosistema.

Arquitectura en España 1992-2008

Arquitectura en España 1992-2008. La presente conferencia (en formato de imágenes) efectúa un recorrido sintético por la producción arquitectónica en España en el periodo que se abre con los acontecimientos de 1992 (Olimpiadas de Barcelona y la Expo Universal de Sevilla) y se cierra en 2008 (Exposición del MoMA, Crisis mundial y Expo Universal de Zaragoza). Por un lado se muestra el contexto socioeconómico mundial y español y se efectúa una selección de distintas arquitecturas agrupadas en seis diversas corrientes: museos, periferias, topografías, E+E+E (sostenibilidad), R+R+R (recuperación) y maestros. Se plantea una hipótesis del éxito de la producción arquitectónica española a partir de la gran libertad creativa (actitud desprejuiciada y abierta, gracias a muchos programas libres), las grandes oportunidades reales de experimentación (el flujo económico) y el sistema de elección de soluciones por concursos (libre competencia e interacción). Partiendo del fin del posmodernismo figurativo y frívolo se pasa a explorar nuevos territorios con múltiples contaminaciones desde diversos campos de conocimiento. De la certeza a la incerteza.

Spanish Architecture 1992-2008

Architecture in Spain 1992-2008. This Conference (in image format) performs a synthetic tour of the architectural production in Spain during the period that opens with the events of 1992 (Olympics Games and World Expo in Seville) and closed in 2008 (exhibition of MoMA, Global Crisis and Universal Expo of Zaragoza). On the one hand shows the world and Spanish socio-economic context and is a selection of different architectures, grouped into six streams.

Address before the second plenary session of the Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogotá, Colombia, April 1, 1948.

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A youth vision of the city: The socio-spatial lives and exclusion of street girls in Bogota, Colombia

This dissertation documents the everyday lives and spaces of a population of youth typically constructed as out of place, and the broader urban context in which they are rendered as such. Thirty-three female and transgender street youth participated in the development of this youth-based participatory action research (YPAR) project utilizing geo-ethnographic methods, auto-photography, and archival research throughout a six-phase, eighteen-month research process in Bogotá, Colombia. ^ This dissertation details the participatory writing process that enabled the YPAR research team to destabilize dominant representations of both street girls and urban space and the participatory mapping process that enabled the development of a youth vision of the city through cartographic images. The maps display individual and aggregate spatial data indicating trends within and making comparisons between three subgroups of the research population according to nine spatial variables. These spatial data, coupled with photographic and ethnographic data, substantiate that street girls’ mobilities and activity spaces intersect with and are altered by state-sponsored urban renewal projects and paramilitary-led social cleansing killings, both efforts to clean up Bogotá by purging the city center of deviant populations and places. ^ Advancing an ethical approach to conducting research with excluded populations, this dissertation argues for the enactment of critical field praxis and care ethics within a YPAR framework to incorporate young people as principal research actors rather than merely voices represented in adultist academic discourse. Interjection of considerations of space, gender, and participation into the study of street youth produce new ways of envisioning the city and the role of young people in research. Instead of seeing the city from a panoptic view, Bogotá is revealed through the eyes of street youth who participated in the construction and feminist visualization of a new cartography and counter-map of the city grounded in embodied, situated praxis. This dissertation presents a socially responsible approach to conducting action-research with high-risk youth by documenting how street girls reclaim their right to the city on paper and in practice; through maps of their everyday exclusion in Bogotá followed by activism to fight against it.^