Metropolitan Rurality in the Aburá Valley: Analysis of the Emergent Transitions Related to the Territorial Planning Processes

Abstract

This research focuses on the comprehension of the metropolitan rurality of the Aburrá valley (Department of Antioquia-Colombia) to identify and define its more significant characteristics from the process analysis of territorial management and the transformations that appear in the territory in relation to them. One research premise is given by the planning and territorial managemente processes initiated in the 1990s which have insisted in the urban-rural dynamics and have contributed to the appearance of transformations at the pheripheres of the urban nucleus of the Aburrá valley and, therefore, in the contiguous rural hinterlands.These processes have limited the vision and definition of the rural metropolitan territory as opposed to the urban. It is possible to understand what is going on in these territories, what changes are ocurrying in their natural composition and at their economic and productive dynamics, and what is the relationship of these changes with the territorial mangement process.The case study is based on three places of the metropolitan area of the Aburrá valley, that represent the recognized territories with characteristics more appropiated to the rurality and that allow to make comparisons of the transformation processes underway and that area object of analysis in the research: to North the municpality of Barbosa, to South, the municipality of Caldas, and to the centre the «corregimiento» of San Sebastian de Palmitas in Medellin.

Keywords

• Valle de Aburrá
• ordenamiento territorial
• ruralidad metropolitana