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Transformación morfológica y cultural de la perifería de Bogotá

2021, Quaderns de recerca en urbanisme

Abstract

As a consequence of the rapid urbanization of Bogotá during the 20th century, the current mega city includes six ancient villages in its urban morphology. These settlements were founded, like the historical center of Bogota, in colonial times, but their history dates back to pre-Hispanic times. In this article, research is spatially delimited to two of the six pre-Hispanic settlements that were converted into Indian villages and later to districts of the metropolis. The cartographic reconstruction of these places in a series of maps from the 1940s and 1980s together with iterative research processes, combining methods and knowledge from different disciplines (participatory work, local literature among others), have revealed in the contemporary patterns historical structures such as the indigenous resguardos linked to the Indian villages. The recent formation of indigenous councils has made visible a culture that many believed it would have been disappeared. The work evidences a continuity of indigenous presence within the contemporary metropolis. Urban forms and social dynamics have transformed and conditioned each other. From this reading arises the need to rethink the concept of heritage and propose a sustainable and resilient future urbanism based on autochthonous principles.