Aesthetic and Rhetoric of Urban Fear – The Case of Bogota City

Abstract

One of the features of some megacities is the production of a current terror set up on dull, rambling, chaotic and terrifying scenarios. In this sense, the city is machinery torturing human bodies and bringing them under a regular condition administered by imaginaries which do not always coincide with reality but determine thoughts, emotions and behaviors that are crystallized on an urban rhetoric. This article aims to contrast an imaginary dangerous city that generates a peculiar dynamism of Bogota and list some immediate token effects on communication of its inhabitants.