Estrategias urbanas para revitalizar los barrios tras la crisis generada por la COVID-19. Caso de estudio parroquia urbana Yanuncay

Abstract

Urban strategies from the perspective of urban development seek to improve human settlements based on actions that integrate the economic, social, political and environmental spheres. In this framework, urban strategies analyze and reflect on the organization and distribution of neighborhoods to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants in the context of the COVID-19 sanitary emergency, which has evidenced the economic and social vulnerability of the neighborhoods. Therefore, the present research aims to determine strategies from an urban approach to revitalize the role of the neighborhoods of the Yanuncay parish of the city of Cuenca, from the pandemic generated by the COVID-19. The research is developed in three stages that allow the proposal of strategies focused on reconfiguring the neighborhoods to meet the new demands in the current scenario. The first stage is based on a bibliographic review to provide theoretical and methodological support to this thesis; in the second stage, the problems and vulnerabilities of the neighborhoods were identified through the application of a survey of the inhabitants of the study area and interviews with the neighborhood presidents. Finally, urban strategies were established, based on the analysis of experiences and models of strategies for sustainable and healthy neighborhoods, to mitigate the post-pandemic effects in the neighborhoods of the mentioned parish. The results revolve around promoting active mobility, reconditioning public spaces, promoting popular and solidarity economy, strategies to support entrepreneurship and actions to protect individual and social welfare. In short, the problems and vulnerabilities were most evident in the peripheral areas of the southwest of the Yanuncay parish. These revolve around social violence, reduction of economic income, proliferation of formal and informal businesses and changes in land use. As a consequence of the above, strategies to revitalize the neighborhoods entail an integral vision of social, urban, political, economic and environmental issues