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Quito's historical center: Notes for development of an alternative urban policy
Seminario Internacional sobre la Conservación de Bienes Culturales en el contexto del Medio Ambiente Urbano (1991)
  • Fernando Carrión Mena
Abstract
Fernando Carrión examines the problems and perspectives for urban development of the historical center of Quito.
Among the objectives to be attained are the following:
a) Put a halt to urban segregation which is expressed in a deficit in housing and services, lack of economic opportunities, and the existence of tenements and emarginated neighborhoods;
b) Promote decentralization in the Ecuadorean urban process and strengthen municipalities;
c) Stimulate participation in decision-making and fiscalization of actions and strengthen popular representation.
The proposed planning must be one where there is constant feedback from results and desired goals as to create a situation of permanent monitoring.
Historical and cultural preservation must be understood to include the entire urban process and as a synthesis between the past and the future.
Keywords
  • centro histórico,
  • Quito,
  • política,
  • medio ambiente,
  • urbanización
Publication Date
1991
Publisher Statement
PNUD
Citation Information
Fernando Carrión Mena. "Quito's historical center: Notes for development of an alternative urban policy" Seminario Internacional sobre la Conservación de Bienes Culturales en el contexto del Medio Ambiente Urbano Iss. Quito (1991)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/fernando_carrion/62/