2019 Urban Research Award: Understanding Open-Air Drug Markets Configuration

PI: Andrea Beltran-Lizarazo, PhD Student; Department of Sociology

This project will explore the development of open-air drug markets in Colombia, where actors in the drug trade exert territorial control over central areas within cities. Specifically, Andrea Beltran Lizarazo will study the case of San Bernardo, in downtown Bogota, to understand what mechanisms benefited drug trade expansion and why the community ceded its neighborhood to the actors involved.

Beltran Lizarazo seeks her findings can provide a basis for the comparative examination of open-air narcotic markets and its policy treatment beyond Colombia.

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