Estrategias para el Ordenamiento del Comercio Informal en Ciudades Intermedias: Caso de Estudio Pasaje – Ecuador

Abstract

The following research is done in order to determine strategies for informal trading system in intermediate cities; reclaiming the concept of public space as an opportunity to activate and make the citizen participation grow. The thesis plan is developed in three phases, first: analogous cases analysis; second: the diagnosis of the site and third: (proposal) urban strategies complemented with social, economic and educational strategies. In the first phase, the search of appropriate bibliography related to development and code is displayed, applied to informal trade in intermediate cities. In the second phase, a diagnosis, which summarizes the problem of the site, is performed, determining that city center Pasaje is an scenario derived from the informal trade proliferation, consequently visual and environmental pollution together with the bad use of public space are generated. In the third phase, alternatives for the organization and development of informal trade in public spaces in order to stop this activity being just a mere legal-administrative condition and turn into a right or condition practiced to the fullest.