Chapter 8
Market Enablement and theReconfiguration of Urban Structurein Colombia
Andrés Ortiz-Gómez and Roger Zetter
INTRODUCTION
Neo-liberal political and economic tendencies promoted during the last two decades in many countries around the world have, as one of their principal goals, the reduction of government intervention in the processes of development and the strengthening of the free market at global, national and local levels. Urban development patterns have not escaped the effects of this paradigm, especially given the marked impact of vigorously promoted deregulation of public control over land use and planning instruments and the privatization ...
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