Medellin urban management Privatized?

Abstract

The city of Medellin in the last decade has generated a series of transformations ranging from the implementation of major infrastructure projects, some of them located in marginal areas of the city, to a process of transforming its historic industrial vocation to vocation services. This process has been advanced through a strategic planning exercise to a new city model, which has passed through the periods of government and the administrative and political boundaries have become political run even decades. This vision of territorial management is based on building consensus among economic sectors that are present in the region and the institutional component, expressed in successive governments, but with exclusion of the rest of the population, generating what could be considered privatization of urban governance. It is on these elements we want to deepen the reflection, as institutional action has entered into a privatization process, focusing their actions in pursuit of income of certain economic sectors, seeking to insert the city into a global dynamic.