Abstract

MARTINEZ TORO, Pedro Martín. A Reflection on the Metropolitan Peripheries of the City of Cali Taking as Reference Literature and Built Heritage. Territ. [online]. 2015, n.33, pp.63-81. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/territ33.2015.03.

In the urban changes in the city of Cali, ranging from the small concentrated township and extension of a few blocks at the time of the Spanish colony until the recent impacts of globalization on metropolization of Cali City, unfurling the southern department of Valle north of Cauca, during the period that is developed from the 1980s to this day, can identify the expansive dynamics of diffuse, scattered and fragmented nature affecting urban neighborhoods, making them the territories more evidence expressing the speed and features of this transformation. This article is based on the possibilities that literature genre has chronic or folkloric, regionalist and historical novel as a complementary input for the study of the history of the city. In the first section, metropolitan peripheries are identified in its landscape and dynamic, as a sign of urban change, which complements the relevance of studies of historical geography. And, in a second section, the book El Alférez Real by José Eustaquio Palacios, who narrates the landscapes and routes between the ranch Cañasgordas and the city of Cali in 1789, describing the urban settlement and the vast distance is used, then (ten kilometers) of rural areas that separated and it was crossed on horseback

Keywords : Periurbanization; architectural heritage; Cañasgordas; Cali; metropolization.

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