Metodología para la determinación de suelo de expansión urbana como categoría de ordenación territorial

Abstract

Soil a non renewable resource, is used for many purposes such as agriculture, mining, forestry, habitat conservation, urban employment, among others. The expansion of cities exerted strong pressure for change in the rural area, especially where this growth occurs on soils suitable for agriculture or conservation. Therefore, it becomes essential to direct and plan the growth of cities, recognizing the potential rural areas that may be used for urban expansion. Whereas the Constitution of Ecuador in Article 264, determined as a matter for the cantonal autonomous governments "Planning the cantonal development and formulate the relevant land use plans, in coordination with national, regional, provincial and parish planning, in order to regulate the use and occupation of urban and rural land, "becomes fundamental methods provide assistance to the cantonal planning that from the academic and research and attachment to our local reality can provide technical criteria in the planning and decision making, and providing solutions and standards processes for the production of the Cantonal Territorial Management Plans, this research proposes a methodology that allows from the use of systems geographic information and determination of soil suitability for urban use receptor spatial analysis.