Génesis de un territorio a partir del camino : contexto, pretexto, textura y texto de la Red Vial Fundamental de Bolivia en el departamento de Cochabamba

Through two projects of the Basic Road Network in the Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia, the thesis addresses the paradox intrinsic to the proposals of highways, seeking to link distant points but conflicting between reticulated and adherent conceptions of mobility. That tension allows us to question the Plurinational State, its development model and autonomic configuration in place since 2009 as an alternative to the Nation-State. The thesis shows the ratio of cases with long-term history of the road network in Cochabamba, since prehispanic era to date (part 1: context); analyses in detail the geography and the landscape dimension of territory traversed (part 2: text); collects a documentary and personal basis, to describe the alliances and confrontations of actors and their discourses on projects (part 3: texture); finally shows how the territorial literacy of the sections confirms and complexifies the paradox of a road conception as "tunnel" and another as dense mesh of connections (part 4: text). The analysis explains that innovations such as the "live well" development model and the "autonomies" as state settings do not question Republican limits and vertical exercise of the power in Bolivia. Therefore, highway projects are truncated and generate conflict when their speeches are unable to adapt effectively to the logic of borders not only applied from the central government, but also from the autonomous entities and their articulation with the global "world system". Finally, urban tracks generated in other environments, such as axis contracts and landscape mediation, are resumed. Adaptation and experimentation for Bolivian mobility projects is suggested as guides to enhance interaction between the routes and territories, from a participatory incorporation of various actors, scales, areas and flows. (BAUR - Art de bâtir et urbanisme) -- UCL, 2014