Abstract

PRADO ORTIZ, Jefferson Manuel. Urban planning in Colombia in the 21st century: an approach to the legal framework of territorial development and its inherence in housing policy and city construction. Rev. Ciudades Estados Política [online]. 2020, vol.7, n.3, pp.63-75.  Epub Dec 14, 2021. ISSN 2462-9103.

At the end of the 20th century, processes of economic, political, and social restructuring had an impact on the growth and configuration of Latin American cities, leading to the implementation of new instruments and regulations for public management related to urban planning and housing policy. In Colombia, this paradigm shift is reflected in the legal framework for socio-territorial development of the 1990s, leading to structural permutations with respect to the State's role in social housing development at the beginning of the 21st century. This article offers reflections about urban and territorial development as stipulated in Law 388 of 1997, including the context in which this law was created, its definition for the role of public management in national territory, and its discursive focus toward new social relations with civil society. This article also analyzes housing programs stipulated in the administration in office at the national level between 2015 to 2018. The article concludes by arguing that the legal framework which stipulates concerted territorial development and defines urban planning as a public function is absent in the formulation of housing policies; thus public action is biased towards private interventionism in matters of socio-territorial development and private interests over general interests in the construction of the city.

Keywords : public-private partnership; social development; State planning; urban planning; housing.

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