Densificación de la ciudad. Propuesta urbana en el área consolidada de la ciudad de Loja, caso de estudio sector “Gran Colombia

Abstract

This research seeks to clarify the concept of urban density. By studying densification projects from the seventeenth century to the present, it is determined that the density has been considered only as the number of people per unit of area, which has distorted its true purpose and application when densifying cities.

Therefore, certain principals for densification are established, such as polarity, which articulates the territorial, neighborhood and architectural scales; the diversity, which final purpose is the mixticity of uses; and lastly, the intensity, which measures the degree of activity of an area. .

From the assumption that consolidated sectors in cities are ideal for densification since they imply lower public and environmental costs by offering more services than peripheral zones, the proposal for the Gran Colombia area in the city of Loja is based on a diagnosis that summarizes the sector’s problematics; by laying out densification strategies that can be applied in other middle cities, sceneries consistent with the historical and social reality of each context are proposed. .