Browsing by Author "Arola Coronas, Francisco"

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Metodología para el diagnóstico y la ordenación de los corredores de crecimiento de ciudades intermedias ecuatorianas: Cuenca como caso de estudio
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-11-11) Cabrera Jara, Natasha Eulalia; Arola Coronas, Francisco
Latin America has experienced a dramatic urbanization processes in the second half of the twentieth century (Avila, 2009; Velázquez, 2007; Gilbert, 1997), transforming in an accelerated manner the territories near their cities. From the academy, an array of multiple reflections has arisen in this particular regard,and developed into new concepts to refer to these new territorialities, such as the term urban-rural fringe. Considering it as a territorial category, denominated as the growth corridors - study object of this investigation- and appear as one of its subcategories. Under these reflections, it exposed a methodology for the diagnosis and planning of growth corridors of intermediate Ecuadorian cities. However, this proposal does not intend to be conclusive or definitive and provide a developing perfectible framework that seeks to be consistent with the ambivalent space in the study. In conclusion, it tries to contribute to the theoretical debate on the planning of these territories in Ecuador. The following research is addressed in six chapters: the first three are more descriptive and explain the theoretical and methodological structure, problems, and case studies. The next three chapters explicate the proposal, its implementation, and a final reflection that leaves open the debate about growth corridors, and their role in the diverse forms of occupation and transformation of the territories.
Valoración y propuesta de diseño del paisaje urbano circundante al tranvía cuatro ríos de Cuenca dentro de la zona del centro histórico de la ciudad
(2017) Carrión Ordoñez, Augusto Alonso; Arola Coronas, Francisco
This thesis document proposes to evaluate “Cuatro Rios de Cuenca” tram way landscapes in the downtown’s historic area known as “Centro Historico”. A mixed methodology will be used to perform this evaluation, to contribute with sustainable criteria which will determine how to improve green areas inside evaluation region. Relevant aspects of the ecological and aesthetic dimensions that define the attributes of the urban landscape are going to be evaluated. As a starting point this work proposes to obtain all the graphical information of the historical center because city has its characteristics, elements, qualities and relationships as product and creation which can be perceived and interpreted. Urban image, characterization and components of the landscape will be analyzed under criteria determined by author Kevin Lynch based on the study of paths, nodes, landmarks and neighborhoods. Urban mobility of the city will be studied to generate information that clarifies the road of the study area. Next step will be to evaluate the mixed assessment of the landscape through proposing several surveys to facilitate the obtaining of results of environmental physical, socio-economic valuation and analysis of visual perception. The resulting information from processing that survey will be used to create a graphic which clearly identifies the most vulnerable points into the study area, and will facilitate the obtaining of a SWOT table which will be the start point to plan the intervention proposals to be made in the study area.