Privatización del espacio público verde en la era neoliberal. El caso del club Tequendama en Cali

Since the end of the eighties, the market dynamics that the neoliberal model has incorporated in the management, organization and planning of cities have put at risk the permanence of green public space. This area of great importance for the quality of civic life, has been susceptible to transformations that violate the character of public use of these places, which has led to processes of privatization, loss and commodification. In this order, this article seeks to explain, through a case study, how in the 1990s a public green area in Cali is privatized by a renowned club in the city. Based on this, it is investigated which actors and instruments promoted the privatization of this place. For the analysis of this process, the starting point is the current debate on critical urban studies in relation to the way in which neoliberalism has molded cities in favor of mercantile logics, affecting the collective spaces that structure the city, putting urban tensions evidence regarding the control and usufruct of urban land by groups with sociopolitical power.