Co-production and Public Space: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin American Informal Neighbourhoods.
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Date
2022
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Universidad de Cuenca
Abstract
The project “Upgrading Informal Settlements by the Coproduction of Inclusive
Public Spaces: urban design strategies for sustainable and resilient development
in informal neighbourhoods’’ (short name: SURLab) was initiated in 2020 as a
collaboration between research groups of the Department of Architecture of the
KU Leuven, the Facultad de Arquitectura of Universidad Católica de Santiago de
Guayaquil and LlactaLAB Sustainable Cities research group at Universidad de
Cuenca. The project tackles the challenge of triggering sustainable and resilient
urban development through the participatory design of public spaces in lowincome informal neighbourhoods. Public Spaces in ‘barrios populares’ (Popular
neighbourhoods) in the Ecuadorean cities of Guayaquil and Cuenca were seen as
representative working cases.
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Public space, Informal neighbourhoods, Co-production