La planeación urbana en Colombia: años sesenta-ochenta. Discursos, consultores y comunidades académicas/Urban Planning in Colombia between the 1960s and 80s: Discourses, Consultants, and Academic Communities/O planejamento urbano na Colômbia: anos sessenta - oitenta. Discursos, consultores e comunidades acadêmicas

This theoretical paper is about the professionalization of urban planning in Colombia (which is still on-going) from the 1960s to the 1980s. It highlights three types of discourse used by urban planners regarding the role of urban planning in the country: the technical-methodological, the socio-tech...

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Published in:Revista de estudios sociales (Bogotá, Colombia) Colombia), 2011-08 (40), p.115
Main Author: Ríos, John Fredy Ramírez
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Consultants
Discourse
Latin American history
Local planning
Planners
Professionalization
Specialists
Urban areas
Urban development
Urban planning
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Summary:This theoretical paper is about the professionalization of urban planning in Colombia (which is still on-going) from the 1960s to the 1980s. It highlights three types of discourse used by urban planners regarding the role of urban planning in the country: the technical-methodological, the socio-technical, and the reactive discourse. It also points to the role played by certain academic communities in legitimizing or criticizing the comprehensive planning paradigm. This descriptive study is based on the testimonies of various urban planners and publications from the period in question. They are interpreted under the general distinction made between procedural and substantive theories of planning. The goal is to offer a provisional framework for the understanding of the place assigned to urban planning and its specialists, within the context of academic and governmental institutions, as part of a theory of local planning. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0123-885X
1900-5180