Identificación de variables, características y lineamientos de actuación para mejorar las condiciones de habitabilidad en asentamientos informales en el área de influencia inmediata de la ciudad de Cuenca. Caso de estudio (Barrios: Guzho - Tres Marías - El Calvario)

Abstract

The informal city represents a considerable segment of urban land, as it significantly increases and becomes the main way of accessing the territory and consequently housing, the reality of which has a greater impact in the Latin American region. The main purpose of this research work is, in the first instance, to identify the variables and characteristics that define informal settlements in the immediate area of influence of the city of Cuenca, specifically in the peripheral neighborhoods Guzho-Tres Marías and El Calvario. The great processes of accelerated and disorderly urban growth, plus the housing deficit that Cuenca has been going through in the last four decades, have given way to the appearance and increase of informal human settlements, located in peri-urban areas of the city, same as To a large extent, they are soils that are not suitable for development, as they present topographic limitations and areas of environmental risk. In this context, this study addresses both conceptual and legal aspects that allow us to understand the problem of informal settlements, as well as cases in Latin American cities that have experienced such a phenomenon in the last decades of the 20th century and continue to face it so far in the 21st century. In this way and through the current situational analysis of the Study Area, as a second instance within the main purpose of this research, a set of action guidelines are proposed, focused on the one hand on improving the habitability conditions of the population residing in these informal spaces, and on the other hand, look for possible solutions or mechanisms that slow down or prevent this type of urban growth.