Bogotá, given its status as a capital city, is a concentration of major offers of goods and services in Colombia, pushing the city towards a transformation process of its urban structure, that, together with population growth, changes in economic and...
Bogotá, given its status as a capital city, is a concentration of major offers of goods and services in Colombia, pushing the city towards a transformation process of its urban structure, that, together with population growth, changes in economic and land use policies, and lately urban sprawl, have shaped a metropolitan region with Bogotá as the core, comprising 34 different municipalities, as indicated by the District Planning Secretariat (2014). As the region is expected to keep growing while squandering natural resources, it should promote a sustainable growth model to prevent it from sprawling as seen in the US cities. This analysis has identified three different variables through the same number of cases of study: self-containment, decentralized concentration, and regional transportation network; in Seoul, Paris and Tokyo, respectively, that will be reviewed according to its particular strength, and the policies that have been applied in order to keep their urban structures in a good shape. The analysis concludes that a consolidation of industry clusters in a range of no more than 50 km from Bogotá downtown, where urban centers with a great supply of labor power are settled is much needed. The impact over trips within Bogotá Metropolitan Region that this model is expected to have, according to what have happened in similar circumstances in US cities, will allow municipalities to be more self-sufficient through the diversification of the commuting travel patterns and the development of reliable public transportation links while reducing overall traffic congestion.