This thesis explores the relationship between metropolitan mobility and socio-spatial inequality in Bogotá, understanding access to the city as a fundamental right directly linked to quality of life and urban equity. In the context of Latin American metropolitan expansion, characterized by dispersed growth, territorial fragmentation, and the concentration of opportunities in central areas, mobility becomes a structural factor that conditions access to employment, education, and essential services, often reproducing patterns of exclusion. Through a multiscalar methodology based on the semantic package approach and the integrated reading of blue, green, and grey infrastructures, combined with comparative territorial analysis, the research examines the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region from the XL scale to XS interventions. The study identifies that fragmented mobility networks and weakly connected infrastructural systems limit equitable access to opportunities, revealing the need for a reticular organization that integrates centralities and redistributes accessibility across scales. At the M scale, the project proposes a masterplan for the Toberín UPL that reorganizes existing structures through a reticular logic inspired by Pedro Ortiz’s territorial principles and the current POT Bogotá Reverdece framework. At the S scale, a replicable urban morphotype (1 km × 1 km) is developed, integrating intermodal mobility, ecological infrastructure, and community services. This strategy culminates at the XS scale in an intermodal redistribution node that articulates transport, public space, and care infrastructure within a single spatial system. The thesis argues that reorganizing mobility as an integrated, multiscalar system can reduce territorial inequalities, enhance everyday accessibility, and strengthen people’s right to reach essential destinations across the city.
Questa tesi esplora la relazione tra mobilità metropolitana e disuguaglianza socio-spaziale a Bogotá, interpretando l’accesso alla città come un diritto fondamentale direttamente collegato alla qualità della vita e all’equità urbana. Nel contesto dell’espansione metropolitana latinoamericana, caratterizzata da crescita dispersa, frammentazione territoriale e concentrazione delle opportunità nelle aree centrali, la mobilità diventa un fattore strutturale che condiziona l’accesso al lavoro, all’istruzione e ai servizi essenziali, riproducendo spesso dinamiche di esclusione. Attraverso una metodologia multiscalare basata sull’approccio del semantic package e sulla lettura integrata delle infrastrutture blu, verdi e grigie, combinata con un’analisi territoriale comparativa, la ricerca esamina la Regione Metropolitana Bogotá-Cundinamarca dalla scala XL fino agli interventi XS. Lo studio individua che reti di mobilità frammentate e sistemi infrastrutturali debolmente connessi limitano un accesso equo alle opportunità, evidenziando la necessità di un’organizzazione reticolare capace di integrare le centralità e redistribuire l’accessibilità attraverso le diverse scale. Alla scala M, il progetto propone un masterplan per la UPL Toberín che riorganizza le strutture esistenti attraverso una logica reticolare ispirata ai principi territoriali di Pedro Ortiz e al quadro vigente del POT Bogotá Reverdece. Alla scala S, viene sviluppato un morfotipo urbano replicabile (1 km × 1 km) che integra mobilità intermodale, infrastrutture ecologiche e servizi comunitari. Questa strategia culmina, alla scala XS, in un nodo intermodale di redistribuzione che articola trasporto, spazio pubblico e infrastrutture di cura all’interno di un unico sistema spaziale. La tesi sostiene che riorganizzare la mobilità come sistema integrato e multiscalare possa ridurre le disuguaglianze territoriali, migliorare l’accessibilità quotidiana e rafforzare il diritto delle persone a raggiungere destinazioni essenziali in tutta la città.
The right to reach: an urban morphotype for territorial accessibility and spatial equity in Bogotá
TORRES BRICEÑO, MARIA CAMILA;Riveros Veloza, Valeria
2025/2026
Abstract
This thesis explores the relationship between metropolitan mobility and socio-spatial inequality in Bogotá, understanding access to the city as a fundamental right directly linked to quality of life and urban equity. In the context of Latin American metropolitan expansion, characterized by dispersed growth, territorial fragmentation, and the concentration of opportunities in central areas, mobility becomes a structural factor that conditions access to employment, education, and essential services, often reproducing patterns of exclusion. Through a multiscalar methodology based on the semantic package approach and the integrated reading of blue, green, and grey infrastructures, combined with comparative territorial analysis, the research examines the Bogotá-Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region from the XL scale to XS interventions. The study identifies that fragmented mobility networks and weakly connected infrastructural systems limit equitable access to opportunities, revealing the need for a reticular organization that integrates centralities and redistributes accessibility across scales. At the M scale, the project proposes a masterplan for the Toberín UPL that reorganizes existing structures through a reticular logic inspired by Pedro Ortiz’s territorial principles and the current POT Bogotá Reverdece framework. At the S scale, a replicable urban morphotype (1 km × 1 km) is developed, integrating intermodal mobility, ecological infrastructure, and community services. This strategy culminates at the XS scale in an intermodal redistribution node that articulates transport, public space, and care infrastructure within a single spatial system. The thesis argues that reorganizing mobility as an integrated, multiscalar system can reduce territorial inequalities, enhance everyday accessibility, and strengthen people’s right to reach essential destinations across the city.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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