Ecological urbanism as a condition underpinning urban life for internally displaced peoples in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: This paper employs the concepts of sustainability and habitability to define and measure ecological urbanism in informal settlements founded by people who have been forcibly displaced by violence. The objective is to identify the obstacles in meeting the tenets of ecological urbanism in informal settlements. We offer primary research from La Primavera, an informal settlement founded by internally displaced people in the late 1970s, located in the corregimiento El Hatillo of Barbosa, Antioquia in northwestern Colombia. Primary research includes qualitative and quantitative data gathered through 72 surveys and 45 technical assessments of properties and houses in the settlement. Situated between the Aburrá River and the northbound highway, above a gas pipeline and under an electricity pylon,

SUBMITTER: Valencia Londono PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10508601 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature