Diego Silva Ardila

Universidad del Rosario | UR · Gestión y Desarrollo Urbanos

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in time...

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in time...

Transformation of urban peripheries in Latin America, as in most places in the world, responds to centrifugal and centripetal forces. On one hand, congestion and increasing land prices in central areas spread out urban land uses from within. On the other hand, rural migration to cities causes urban expansion from without. Thus, the influx of both l...

Implementation in the late nineties of Transmilenio, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) based transportation policy in Bogotá (Colombia), marked an inflection milestone for the replication processes of such urban transportation policies. Multiple actors and actions brought the Transmilenio model to numerous cities worldwide, first replicated in other Colomb...