Development of urban strategies to optimize the public space of the Barranco Pelado Sector, Barrio La Paz

Investigation article

Abstract

The different social and urban problems that the Barranco Pelado sector of the La Paz neighborhood in Portoviejo faces are originally caused by poor planning, implanting a commercial building that would later serve as a refuge for the fulfillment of activities of doubtful legitimacy, giving a bad urban image to the area and avoiding the social interactions of the local people. The different causes that have initiated these problems were analyzed in order to propose a proposal that improves the situation that occurs in the sector. In this research the methodology that determines the causes of the problem through the analysis of regulations and with the support of the inhabitants of the studied sector. In which it was established that the planning and implementation of the aforementioned commercial project generated negative implications in the activities of the sector; In addition, the environmental impact is generated in the little care of the water masses of the Portoviejo River, influencing the bad image that is generated of the city. To carry out the proposal, similar investigations were analyzed that presented similar difficulties, but of different causes, giving a new approach to solving the main problem of the study.

Keywords: planning, urban-environmental deterioration, negative implications, land use, dynamism.