¿DENSIFIED URBAN DEVELOPMENT SEGREGATES TO GREEN SPACES?

To start it is necessary to know the meaning of green spaces, (Cardona Aleix, 2018) "is a
delimited land in which there is vegetation. It can be a forest, a jungle, a park or a garden,
but it must be delimited and have vegetation. In addition, when we speak of urban green
spaces we refer to those that are within a city or an urban agglomeration "1, in an analogous
way, to question why these are directly affected by the exponential territorial growth that is
present in urban areas. It is necessary to understand in the same way how the morphology
and social construction of the Bogota capital are a reflection of the globalized economic
system that does not contribute to the environmental benefit.
First, we will try to understand how development approaches can define our situation starting
in the first phase by the dependentist approach which states that progress is directly
committed to the production and exchange between nations of goods and services, which
simultaneously committed to segregation of them building an idea of the first world -
developed countries and third world - underdeveloped countries that warned that for the
existence of wealth must coexist poverty; However, this idea was criticized and replaced by
the disagreement of society over the rise of excessive consumption, compromising natural
resources, therefore sustainable development is stable (Brundtlant Commission: Our
Common Future, 1987) Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
It contains within it two key concepts:

 The concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which
overriding priority should be given.
 The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on
the environment's ability to meet present and future needs.2
Then, through the implementation or knowledge of modern needs, developed countries
moved to new models of consumption until they reached the present in which they improved
their quality of life, but benefited from the urgency of Third World countries like Colombia to
establish themselves and accumulate wealth. through the use of the environmental heritage
of the territory; consequently the urban landscape as well as the rural one are affected by
the foreign intervention under the image of foreign investment.
Secondly, decompose as the socioeconomic development, its conceptions and
implementation are present in Bogotá, being necessary to mention the evolution of the
metropolis that in the same way assumed a disconcerting reality for its inhabitants that are
forced to coexist in a competitive, innovative and specialized system, also glimpsing the
borders, that is to say the nation as a plurality and a centrality with the objective in being a
concentration node to attract investment and economic growth, supposing that they are
pockets of population agglomeration equally, without take into account forced displacement
due to armed conflict or the search for opportunities by immigrants, as is the case of

1
Cardona Aleix, June 6, 2018, The importance of green spaces in cities, Architecture and
Urbanism, Environment, Green Ecology, https://www.ecologiaverde.com/la-importancia-de-los-
espacios-verdes- in-the-cities-272.html
2 Brundtlant Commission: Our Common Future, 1987, Sustenaible development, UN Documents, a

Body of Global Agreements, NGO Committee on Education, Conference of NGOs, United Nations.
Venezuelan migration which forms a sum demands - needs that effectively assume patterns
such as inequality, high density, low livability and occupation of green areas (nature
reserves, parks, forests, tree plantings, water flows, among others), for which it is necessary
to question how the obsolete (past) dynamics can be renewed (future) and to project in a
parallel way the social economic benefit without attacking the environment with institutional
investments for the recovery, care and control of environmental spaces.

Third, land in the neighborhood Providencia Alta which is a neighborhood located on the
outskirts of the capital, which is also located in a mountain range, which was founded by a
real estate market that project housing of social interest on a nature reserve , which in
principle lead to; (Adrián G. Aguilar and Flor M. López, 2016) "settlements resulting from the
process of peri urbanization, many of them informal and with marked deficits in public
services. The recovery of central areas and the revaluation of rehabilitated spaces have
pushed poor groups to seek informal means to solve their problem of homelessness, and
have done so on cheap land with difficult access and high environmental risk "3, this is also
the result of the real estate markets that converted the construction and modification of the
habitat as a business, densifying at high speed the cities in a disorganized manner affecting
biodiversity; being witnesses of housing grouping systems in areas of high environmental
risk.
In short, the mass production of real estate is being a global problem due to the consumption
of space required to define, build and develop the industrialized land, but this does not mean
that we are unaware of the current situation which fundamentally demands that communities
diminish their urban as well as population growth since the rates of violence, theft and
intolerance continue to increase; However, there are tools that promote vernacular
landscape improvement, appropriation, participation, renewable energies, sustainable
materials, state urban institutions, territorial planning plans and urban policies among many
others that from the citizens and government agencies seek to improve the quality of life,
focusing on the management, planning, regulation, financing and research of green areas
such as public space, recognizing its benefits such as increasing life expectancy, healthy
sport, improving social relations, creating ecological awareness, reducing carbon dioxide,
etc.

William Rivero
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3
Adrián G. Aguilar, Flor M. López, 02/25/1025, Spaces of poverty in the urban periphery and inner
suburbs of Mexico City. The accumulated disadvantages, ARTICLES, SciELO,
https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0250-71612016000100001