Estrategias de Densificación para las ciudades del Ecuador, caso de estudio sector “San Cayetano”

Abstract

The following research consists of the study is the urban density, in order to assess their conceptual and possibilities and limits of change in Latin America, and specifically, the average cities of Ecuador.

Urban development bathroom Ecuador has been characterized by disorderly expansion of urban areas, which has generated residential segregation and occupation irregular floor peripheries.

Through a brief densification project review and the evolution of cities from XIX century can determine the density. That helped quite a different rationales planning, resulting new concepts densify as a through innovative strategies as densification: compactness, urbanity, social justice, expansion, intensity.

It is establishing the problematic in Lower San Cayetano, located on the outskirts of the city of Loja, through the issue of self-diagnosis resume, which allows us to establish parameters and adaptive strategies densification Intermediate cities, that also analyze there may be a density different scales: urban / regional, neighborhood and the architectural object.