Abstract
In the last decades, the occupation of the pedestrian routes and in general of the public space in the city center of Cali Colombia, have been evidencing diverse phenomena, which to a great extent respond to the accelerated growth of the urban population, where the migrations that have occurred in the interior of the country (fruit of the social conflicts of the last decades), have particularly marked the realities. In Cali, on 10th and 15th streets, near the Government Building, the Palace of Justice and the Municipal Administrative Center - CAM, the public space in general terms has been stressed in a particular way, which has generated conflicts in the surfaces designed for the pedestrians, since they are occupied by vendors in the midst of the informality routines, forcing the pedestrian to use the automobile tracks being a notorious and interesting phenomenon, when observing the factors that produce it and using them as parameters in the design of architectural spaces that contribute to improvement.
Highlights
The city of Santiago de Cali, founded in 1 536, is located close to the south-western Colombian coast on the Pacific Ocean (Figure 1), it is undoubtedly the most important urban center of Colombia in that region, ranking by number of inhabitants, as the third city with the largest population after Bogotá and Medellin (Torres & Caicedo, 2015), demonstrating particular processes in recent decades, where the urbanization of the territory is one of the most important and constants phenomena
The elaborated maps allow to visualize that the urban surfaces used by the informal vendors in the city of Cali, present patterns that allow the characterization of the zones in a theoretical way and within the logic of proposing alternatives that give solution to conflicting routines associated to the use of the public space, it is possible that these patterns are guidelines to give specific answers, and from the adjustment of the same surfaces, to ensure the permanence of the actors in conditions of "use balance", which is defined as a concept to be designed in the instruments of territorial ordering and pertinent urban regulatory framework
It is interesting to see that the densities evidenced in the heat maps (Figure 7 to Figure 11), allow us to understand that there are distributions with specialization according to basic elements, with which the design of suitable places for the different practices, in a routine of providing space of labor opportunity is possible, adding variables of balance according to uses and immediate urban context, with which "the surfaces of opportunity "is a second concept that allows design to be incorporated as a planning tool
Summary
The city of Santiago de Cali, founded in 1 536, is located close to the south-western Colombian coast on the Pacific Ocean (Figure 1), it is undoubtedly the most important urban center of Colombia in that region, ranking by number of inhabitants (close to 2.5 million), as the third city with the largest population after Bogotá and Medellin (Torres & Caicedo, 2015), demonstrating particular processes in recent decades, where the urbanization of the territory is one of the most important and constants phenomena. The information previously given describes and shows that many people settled in territories and nearby cities, were attracted by the conditions of Cali and sought in it better living conditions, promoting other phenomena such as migrations of "large magnitudes" (Banguero, 1980), which is still recognizable today; which at the same time produces a continuous mixture of cultures, which stresses in many ways the urban development of the city, by considerably expanding the spectrum of needs, since the heterogeneous characteristics of the groups that arrive multiply the variables and increase the sense of the basics in the visions of the state in its different scales of administration
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