From industrial landscapes to public space in the global south: re-signification and collective learning in urban revitalization processes in Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.26439/limaq2026.n017.7961Keywords:
community appropriation, territorial citizenship, public space, collective memory, industrial heritageAbstract
This article analyzes how potential urban industrial landscapes in Bogotá, Medellín, and Barranquilla are transformed into public spaces through revitalization processes mediated by regulatory frameworks, institutional practices, and community appropriation. The research, based on a qualitative approach and an exploratory-comparative character, draws on several semi-structured interviews with public, academic, and community actors, analyzed using discourse analysis techniques. The study examines the tensions between state, private, and community actors in the re-signification of former industrial enclaves, highlighting how social appropriation and collective memory emerge in fragmented ways amid urban interventions that prioritize land profitability. The findings suggest that, in urban contexts of the Global Southmarked by territorial inequalities and dynamics of informality post-industrial public spaces can become common goods when their symbolic dimension, pedagogical potential, and contested nature are recognized.
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