Plural scenarios in spatial planning

Land projects in the Main Ecological Structure of Bogota

Abstract

This article explores the contribution of Bogotá's Main Ecological Structure to create a more diverse, comprehensive and inclusive urbanism. The central argument of the paper considers that the transition of urban planning towards its articulation with nature, in the case of the Bogotá Sabana, is built from the concept and configuration of the ecological structure. The soil is presented as a common component and mediator in the formulation of new plural scenarios in the new practices of urbanism. From the emerging concern of integrating nature into the collective city project, the article examines the geography of the Sabana and the progressive articulation of urbanism and ecology since the second half of the twentieth century. The process of territorial planning is expanded with a socio-ecological approach. Under a renewed paradigm towards an urbanism for a living soil, the case of Bogotá presents an interesting convergence of new ideas, debates and instruments to reorient the scenarios integrating city and region. Therefore, the particularities of the process of formation of the metropolitan region of Bogotá, as well as the knowledge of its natural environment of great biodiversity are the materials for the collective and long-term construction of a more plural scenario.