Article
Spanish
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Abstract
Accelerated urban growth has led, among other things, to an increase in informal settlements in Latin American peripheries and to an increase in urban inequality. Growing inequality leading, in many cases, to socio-economic residential segregation, which means that the various population groups that form a community are distanced. This phenomenon is on the rise in Latin America. In cities of considerable size, experiences from interventions to integrate and improve these sectors are often enriching. However, what strategies could be implemented in intermediate cities with low funding possibilities and limited budgets? This article looks into the development of these processes in the city of Ibagué-Colombia and attempts to find some strategies applicable by the design of a university cooperation project. At the outset, it draws attention to the aspects that have encouraged the reproduction of informal settlements in the context and their possible links with the presence of social and economic residential segregation. It then examines the evolving process of informal settlements in Ibagué and takes the Las Delicias district as an experimental laboratory. Finally, a cooperation project was proposed to improve the neighbourhood of these sectors.