Urban rhetoric from young university students: towards a geo-poetic of Bogota city

Abstract

This text shows some of the research´s results “Representations in Bogota city of young university people”, financed by La Salle University. This research studied, from a semiotic- cognitive view, the ways of urban representations in forty young university people (Pedagógica University, Nacional University, Distrital Francisco José de Caldas University, south branch, Minuto de Dios University, and La Sabana University), who throw propositional and iconographic corpus, expose how they see Bogota city. In order to get it, we took as an explorer tool the use of a questionnaire (CTU) and an urban draw (APUJ), which answers revealed the youthful ways of mark out territorial tendencies of the spaces they used and lived. One of the most interested conclusions is the outline of a geo- poetic which stand out five metaphoric cities by those young urban people: the eliminated one, the wished one, the aggressive one, the closed one and the chaotic one.