Analysis of urban expansion of the municipality of Facatativa from the policies of territorial planning in the period 2002-2011

Urban expansion, directly related to demographic dynamic, materializes locally by increasing urbanized areas. As a process of transformation and land use, it is given as a planned intervention mechanism which is implemented by the state. This article presents the results of the research work carried out in the urban area of the municipality of Facatativa and temporally between the years 2002-2011, a period in which spatial patterns can be determined by the implementation of the Land Use Plan in urban expansion. Framed in urban geography, this research was conducted with support in statistics and cadastral mapping of the township zoning plan, supplemented by the document review and implementation of semicontrolled surveys to identify the impact of urban policies in the process of expansion from the urban dynamics of the municipality.