Cities have become the main stage for contemporary crises: social inequality, territorial exclusion, socio-environmental conflicts, and disputes over common goods. In Latin America, and particularly in Colombia, these dynamics are intensified under a neoliberal urban planning model that subordinates life to market logic, commodifies land, and weakens the right to the city. Urban conflicts tend to deepen in contexts of rapid urbanization, informality, housing crises, and job insecurity. In this context, we study the emergence of grassroots organizational responses, taking as a case study the National Popular Urban Summit (CUNAP) in Colombia, understood as a process of political and territorial articulation that promotes an alternative model to the dominant city model. The CUNAP paves the way for the construction of a Comprehensive Popular Urban Reform, based on insurgent planning, urban-popular memory, the social production of habitat, community autonomy, and urban peace as a horizon for structural transformation.
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