Urban equipment in the reconstruction of community ties

Abstract

This paper investigates the strategic role of equipment in the physical construction of the Latin American city, based on its capacity to transform unconsolidated urban environments, as a component for a future intervention in the southeastern edge of the city of Bogota. The text consists of two parts. First, it builds a framework that originates in the relationship of equipment with three subjects: city, citizen participation and public space. Second, it analyzes a repertoire of equipment of different scales from the last 60 years in the Latin American city, to identify constants associated with implantation and relationship with the environment. As a conclusion, this article affirms that it is necessary to rethink the relationship between equipment and public space in light of existing land problems, as well as the role of projects in the modeling of objects that transcend normative fact and suggest a path that leaves behind city planning practices anchored in functional conventions.