Urban government and urban planning in Bogotá: the San Luis and El Campín neighborhoods (1938-1966)

La relacion entre urbanismo y politica ha sido problematica dado que el conocimiento sobre la ciudad incluye disciplinas como la arquitectura o la sociologia. Este vinculo es estrecho ya que la ciudad y el urbanismo son fenomenos politicos en la medida que involucran actores con intereses diferenciales sobre el desarrollo urbano. Ademas, las intervenciones urbanas velan por la calidad de vida de sus habitantes, que comunmente se cumplen a traves de un gobierno urbano. Esto se evidencia en Bogota, una ciudad que experimento un acelerado crecimiento urbano a principios del siglo XX, lo que genero problematicas urbanisticas y financieras. Como solucion se intento crear una estructura de gobierno urbano que, de paso, favoreceria la modernizacion de la ciudad. Sin embargo, este objetivo se logro parcialmente ante la persistencia de dichas situaciones. Los barrios San Luis y El Campin son un reflejo de las dinamicas urbanisticas y politico-administrativas que ocurrieron entonces.Palabras clave: gobierno urbano, urbanismo, San Luis-El Campin, Bogota.Linea de investigacion: 2: Ciudad y Proyecto.Tema: Historia urbana e historia del urbanismo. ABSTRACTThe relationship among town planning and politics has been problematic because knowledge about cities have included disciplines like architecture or sociology. This link is closed as city and town planning are political phenomena as in, they involve agents with different interests on the urban development. Thus, urban interventions ensure the life quality between the inhabitants, commonly carried out by an urban government. This is evident in Bogota, a city which experimented an accelerated urban growing at the beginning of 20th century, generating urbanistic and financial troubles. As a solution, creating an urban government structure was tried that, incidentally, should have impulse the modernization of this city. However, the objective was just achieved partially because of continuing situations. The neighbourhoods San Luis and El Campin reflect the urbanistic, political and administrative dynamics happened at that time.Keywords: urban government, town planning, San Luis-El Campin, Bogota.Research line: 2: City and Project.Topic: Urban history and history of urbanism.