Lineamientos metodológicos para ordenar el área periurbana de Cuenca: caso Guncay-El Valle

Abstract

The territorial realignment addresses the appropriate use of land, but leaves aside the specific outskirt reality that due to the urban-rural complexity cannot be planned as a traditional urban normative. The dynamics between the urban and rural areas coexist but there are not homogenous in time, even its borderlines are temporary. In order to delineate the outskirts in Cuenca, it has been made a brief analysis of the legal normative that regulates urban planning and territorial realignment in the whole country and at canton level, as well as the outcomes and effects of its application in land. To describe the outskirts, we proceeded to characterizer its area from the starting point of its functions along history, besides that it is exposed different concepts and definitions from many authors that shows the heterogeneity criteria on the definition of outskirts. It is propose a new lecture from a theoretical-methodologic focus of complex systems. It is performed the characterization and construction of the outskirt area and its expansion of the City of Cuenca, and its proposed methodologic alignments for its treatment. The methodology corresponds to the National Territorial Model, the approach to these spaces are planned at a Partial Plan scale with an integral vision and system that is capable to attend the problems encounter at the outskirts. The outskirt planning would be complemented by the urban planning and it has to be articulated to the rural and national context.