Case study: a look at informality, highlighting social bonds as a transformative and sustainable tool in Comuna 9, La Pedregosa neigborhood, Bucaramanga, Santander (Colombia)

Abstract

This work seeks to underline the creation of an idea of ideal neighbourhood unity in the city scenario, where a balance between population density and diversity is contemplated, without neglecting the realities of its connectivity, social cohesion and a coherent use of the territory. In particular, the case study manages to define the importance of reading the territory with the social bond in order to determine, through diagnosis, the characteristics of the cultural processes of formation, transformation and consolidation of the informal neighborhood. In general, the process is framed in a methodology that includes a roadmap that establishes how the territory should be shaped, building a strategic plan for sustainable intervention that involves the population within a participatory proposal. Next, the field study recognizes various components that show how the population sculpts an environment made up of a sensitive natural system and a predisposition to change, whether spontaneous or natural. It is here that the analysis of the information allows us to establish criteria to glimpse the interactions between the environment and socioeconomic dynamics, all of them scrutinized from a linear analysis that involves cause-effect-guidelines-strategies. Consequently, the final section exposes the strategies that make up a proposal that manages to bring to the fore the importance of the participatory and inter-institutional process, with a sustainable balance in the physical environment of the city.