Estrategias urbano-arquitectónicas para el mejoramiento de parques barriales urbanos en proyectos de vivienda colectiva de la ciudad de Cuenca. Casos de estudio: Bosque de Monay I, Bosque de Monay II y Ciudadela Tomebamba

Abstract

Problems related to the lack of appropriation, disuse or even abandonment of neighborhood parks in collective housing projects in the city, prevent them from fulfilling their functions of being recreation and social leisure spaces. For this reason, the objective is to establish guidelines or strategies that guide future interventions and promote their improvement. Firstly, a conceptual and regulatory bibliographic review is carried out. This makes possible to reach a definition of neighborhood parks and their main characteristics, as well as to know the regulations that control this type of spaces, general guidelines and quality criteria that promote successful public spaces. Secondly, an analysis of diagnostic methodologies to parks and public spaces applied in different countries such as: Argentina, México, Chile y Ecuador is carried out, and propose a methodology that allows a comprehensive diagnosis of the neighborhood parks of the city of Cuenca. As a third point, the methodology is applied to three parks in Monay neighborhood. The analysis of results allows to find potentialities and problems of these spaces to finally establish strategies and concrete actions based on regulations, existing guidelines and the diagnosis of the parks studied. These are distributed according to the quality criteria of: safety, accessibility, comfort, diversity and local identity.