Análisis del espacio público como instrumento de transformación social y funcional en la zona consolidada de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

This research supports the hypothesis that a redefinition of the characters and forms of use of public spaces and places in the consolidated area with a clear structuring of a system of urban interiors; It will indirectly trigger a diffuse process of urban regeneration and recovery of heritage spaces and buildings now in decline, defining a model or prototype of structuring public spaces in consolidated areas that could be proposed also in other Andean cities. The objective is to articulate the relationships between a triple system of public spaces: monumental spaces (squares and historic urban axes), green spaces and 'urban interiors' characterized by their particular conditions of privacy. In this sense, the configuration of a system of introverted and domestic spaces can be useful to reduce phenomena of socio-spatial fragmentation that today mark the consolidated city where it is possible to recognize parts inhabited by different strata and social groups, specifying new places of exchange Social.