Informal city, territorialities of social production of urban space in human settlements

Abstract

The category of informal city is developed as an action of territorialization that materializes the notion of the social production of space, as a process and product of urban socio-spatial segregation in the search for the right to territory. Subsequently, it is evidenced from the case of the city of Armenia (Colombia), how the territorial configuration of this and other cities is due, to a great extent, to the production of informal city, a situation that must be taken into account by the different policies of territorial ordering. Finally, it is investigated how the conditions of an informal city fragment in Armenia not only have been a response of adaptation and overcoming conditions to which their inhabitants have been relegated, in turn, it is evident that such situation forms a scenario of their reality that configures struggles for territorialization of their rights.