Judicializacin y poltica urbana: Ciudadanos, polticos y jueces en la suspensin de Transmilenio por la Sptima en Bogot

This article analyzes the suspension of the Transmilenio BRT transport project on the 7th Avenue of Bogota through legal actions. Based on 23 interviews and a review of legal and judicial documents, we show how the growing judicialization of urban planning in Bogota is reconfiguring urban politics, opening new ways of influencing city decisions and empowering certain actors and discourses in urban governance. In this case, property owners, educated middle-class citizens, and politicians were able to suspend the project and defend their interests and visions of the city through the mobilization of legal knowledge. The article concludes by highlighting the need to better conceptualize the possibilities and limits of judicialization to democratize urban planning and policy, something that has not been given sufficient attention in Latin American urban studies.