Imaginarios Urbanos y representaciones culturales en la historia del Sector Antiguo de Tunja (1968 – 1979)

Abstract

The present article aims to present a reflection on the relationships between urban imaginaries and cultural representations referring to the urban space inherited from the old sector of Tunja; Historical, patrimonial and cultural city representative of the Architecture and the society of the XVI century, that has prevailed until the present time in Colombia. To this end, emphasis is placed on the period between 1968 and 1979, in which political, academic, and cultural desires were expressed in the context of a modernization that was in constant tension due to the perspectives of change and prevalences that arose from the interests of different sectors of society and that determined expressions of material changes, use of inherited urban space, and disuse of traditional domestic architecture. The approach method was made from a qualitative and inductive approach, with the analysis, reflection and explanatory synthesis of primary, historiographic and material sources present in the architecture and urban planning of the city. The result of the research presents the main topics of debate, as well as the actors and urban forces that influenced the historical and cultural significance of this city, and whose questioning allows us to explain the main meanings that material representations had in shaping a memory. urban, artistic and cultural, which influenced the distinction of its own identity, in the Latin American context.