Espacio público, resignificación y neoliberalización en Cali

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the most important characteristics in the cities is the reticence and redefinition of Public Urban Green Space, which has been presented like a citizens’ space, but today it is transformed as a private space. To understand the reticence process, it is necessary to identify the transformations that Cali city has had experience since it was a village in the first part of the xx century until now, where the neoliberal urbanization rationalism, has been the most important overall. The rationality of the neoliberal politics is to transform the public scene into “brands spaces” which are spaces for encounters, pleasure and enjoyment of the citizens. Under this perspective the cities are getting strange, expensive and foreign for the population that lives in it. This report is divided in four parts: in the first part it can be find the topic of the emergence of the Public Green Space inside the urban structure of the city in the beginning of the xx century; in the second part it can be found the deals with the local laws of The Public Urban Green Space in Cali. In the Third part the role played by these Publics Green Spaces focalize which plans could be transformed into modern ones of the xx century; finally in the fourth part, it is shown the process of the neoliberal urbanization and the sense it takes to restore the green Public Space from this tendency.