Luces y sombras del urbanismo táctico. Análisis de dos proyectos de Urbanismo táctico en ciudad de Barranquilla, Colombia

Abstract

The demand for urban spaces that are appropriate to the daily dynamics and sociability of citizens has led to the emergence of artifacts of an ephemeral nature which come to replace a more sustained action on the part of the state’s administrative institutions in processes of the production of the city. These are low-cost interventions that struggle for a place in city making methods and are known as tactical urbanism. This article explores this concept and its effects on the humanization of public space. It addresses the concept’s lights and shadows as well as its implementation in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, as a mechanism for the transformation of urban realities. In this context, this paper proposes a critical reflection from a constructivist and qualitative approach including observation and analysis of the development of two tactical urban planning projects in Barranquilla, developed through city laboratories with the Urban Acupuncture Seedbed and the Cityzen Professors Collective of the Universidad de la Costa.