From Cities to Regions: Integrated regional development in Bogota-Cundinamarca

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Created on Thursday, 03 June 2010 01:25

An INTA Panel assisted the UN Centre for Regional Development in Latin America UNCRD-LAC in the programme for integrated regional development in Bogota-Cundinamarca. The Panel, composed of 15 people with 8 nationalities, considered the issues identified in discussions and activities since May 2009 within the framework of the postulates of the Capital Region Bogota Cundinamarca and in relation to the process of harmonization of territorial planning of Bogota DC and the surrounding municipalities of Sabana.

The Panel advanced the discussion on how to forge effective partnerships in the areas jointly defined as entities involved, to make recommendations about the kind of problems that can be addressed, the principles that should guide the development of land use plans. We also seek to identify specifically what is needed and how to reconcile competing objectives, determining what resources may be available, and what organizational and institutional processes are required to obtain the desired results. It is expected that the result of the panel will constitute the basis for the continuation of collective work between Bogotá and the municipalities in the process of revising the land use plans and in future commitments elaborated politically in a memorandum of understanding signed by the mayors of the involved territories.

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