Let´s Save the Colombian Rural Urban Space
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The rural space close to the Colombian large cities, presents a critical panorama due to its borderline situation between a field that has practically been abandoned as developmental, economic, and social project in the last sixty years, and a city submitted to an intensive urbanization process, which in a short period has changed the demography, economy, and culture of the country. In general terms, this critical rural scene presents the following characteristics:
Uncontrolled housing urbanization VIS, spontaneous, for recreation and second homes.
Precarious Peri urbanizations, following urban habitat standards.
Poor rural communities, uprooted and low-income work.
Progressive deterioration of strategic ecosystems, biodiversity, water sources, and agrarian landscape.
Rural homogenization
Fragmented and low-impact rural public policies
Plan ECO – correctional strategies – elaborated by the School of Habitat form the National Colombian University in Medellin. It suggests a management alternative for these territories to reach sustainable development under the idea of constructing a “new rural concept.”
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