La valoración del espacio público patrimonial en el centro histórico de la ciudad de Cuenca caso de estudio plazoleta de El Carmen

Abstract

The present research proposes to develop a methodology that facilitates the evaluation, understanding and analysis of a heritage public space. The application is made in the Plazoleta de El Carmen, which is located in the Historic Center of the city of Cuenca.

This research is based on a general knowledge of the site and the processes of value assessment of cultural heritage, which allowed the following questions to be answered: Why to value? How to value? What values? Who do they value? Who do they value? With the aim of structuring a qualitative methodology.

In order to fulfill this purpose, bibliographical research was carried out, in the field, in addition, ethnographic tools were implemented during the process since heritage values have several perspectives and can be approached from different points of view, from the perspective of the experts and the community.

In the first chapter of this thesis develops the theoretical framework conceptual about public space and about value assessment. In chapter two, aspects related to valuation at the international, national and local levels were analyzed.

In chapter three, emphasis was placed on the structuring of a methodology for heritage value assessment in heritage public spaces; and finally in chapter four, the methodology was applied in the Plazoleta de El Carmen, with an inheritable legibility, from the point historical, aesthetic, artistic, scientific, social, economic and sensorial, allowing a detailed reading of the heritage property and its context in order to determine the significance of the site and contribute to its management, management, conservation citizens empowerment.