Towards a geo-historical and contextual problem of the segregated urban space

Abstract Considering the specific case of the city of Ibagué, Colombia, this article shows a geohistorical and contextual analysis that presents the determining factors of residential segregation in the city of Ibagué since the 1930s to 2015, period that includes when it comes into force the neoliberal economic model in the country with the state policy of economic opening. In this way, it is determined from the grade and value scales the role played by both agents and urban actors in the configuration of the territory, there is a change from the traditional pattern of segregation to a new trend of this phenomenon, expressed through the process of occupation and distribution of population groups as the urban expansion of Ibagué took place.