ABSTRACT
The characteristics of land occupation in the urban periphery of Ibagué in 1935 are the historical material evidence of the conjunction of several factors such as the continuing growth of the city according to the preceding urban principles, in the absence of urban policies. Such policies changed from a strong control of the state over the city, to an indeterminacy or liberation of the land, in connection with the ongoing transformation towards economic liberalism. As a consequence, a regulatory gap was generated whose free interpretation resulted in the distortion of the colonial urban grid and generated an anarchic heteromorphism of the city in the mid-twentieth century that even today characterizes the urban planning exercise.
