Abstract

ALTEZ, ROGELIO  and  URBANI PATAT, FRANCO. Forgetting morphologies: Historical occupation of the space and vulnerability in Central Littoral of Venezuela. memorias [online]. 2021, n.45, pp.119-152.  Epub Apr 27, 2022. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.45.987.

The Central Littoral of Venezuela is a region constrained by its natural conditions and with only a short space for urban development, which was only expanded since the 1950s. Subsequently, the region offers a unified aspect by interconnected roads and avenues from East to West, as opposed to its historical condition as a disjointed region and with isolated settlements. The occupation of this space from the 16th century onwards has been marked by the interests of Caracas with different phases, according to historical contexts, and in any case its development been articulated with the environment where its populations settle. The result of this process, especially from its modern urbanization to the present, has been the burial of local and regional memory, even physically, burying the characteristic morphology of the region for the benefit of a spa culture, and founding a society with its back to their natural habitat and in deep conditions of vulnerability. This paper analyzes this problem on the basis of historical reconstruction of this process, and the direct field study of morphological characteristics that conform this region.

Keywords : Central Littoral of Venezuela; vulnerability; occupation of spaces; urban development.

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