Urban Development and Urban Transport: The Medellin Tramway, 1919-1950
Author(s)
Correa, Juan Santiago
Abstract
This paper analyses how the Medellin elite developed a mass-transport system, the urban tramway, during the first decades of the 20th century. This project supported the city’s industrialization and facilitated constructing working-class neighborhoods in the periphery. The elite’s progressive perspective combined advancing their private interests with a concern for public welfare and the needs of a growing urban area.
