Recuento de la protesta ciudadana por el espacio público en la ciudad de Guayaquil por motivo de políticas públicas en relación a su uso.

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
Academy and citizens symbiosis for the public spaces
struggle in Guayaquil
Luis Alfonso Saltos Espinoza
CREAT I V E ADJACENCI ES
T R A C K 1 / P u b l i c S p a c e : s p a c e s fo r a l l ?
June 3rd 2014, Ghent - Belgium

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Arch itectu re , Design and Urb an is m
Architects / Urban Planners
Buildings / Urban Planning
EDUCATION
Urban Centers / Cities
Public Sector Private Sector
Technical and Social
components

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
Arch itectu re , Design and Urb an is m
EDUCATION
How the student profile
should be?
Technical
background
Social
background
Social
consciousness
Investigation /
Participation
Interaction
between
universities and
government
institutions
What is the current involvement of Academic Architectural Studies
in the urban/architectonical development processes of Guayaquil?

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
I ntroduction – Case Guayaquil

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation
From the beginning, the new local
government undertook a campaign of
“urban cleansing" starting from his own
building, and later moved to the streets
and then to the public spaces of the city.
http://especiales.eluniverso.com/otroguayaquil/informales-entre-la-oportunidad-y-la-persecucion/

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation

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Social Struggle for Public Spaces in Guayaquil
T h e Age of Urban Generation
It is necessary to show the areas and spaces
that have undergone reconstruction, while
covering up and hiding the undesirable portion
of the population.

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City Awakening – T h e Generation of Regeneration
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Menor de 1 año
De 1 a 4 años
De 5 a 9 años
De 10 a 14 años
De 15 a 19 años
De 20 a 24 años
De 25 a 29 años
De 30 a 34 años
De 35 a 39 años
De 40 a 44 años
De 45 a 49 años
De 50 a 54 años
De 55 a 59 años
De 60 a 64 años
De 65 a 69 años
De 70 a 74 años
De 75 a 79 años
De 80 a 84 años
De 85 a 89 años
De 90 a 94 años
De 95 a 99 años
De 100 años y…
Urban population by age group in Guayaquil
Source: INEC 2011
1990 10 years old
2014 34 years old
2000 10 years old
2014 24 years old
I Group
II Group

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City Awakening – T h e Generation of Regeneration

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City Awakening – T h e Generation of Regeneration
Young citizens continue their social struggle with
many demonstrations throughout the city
attempting to promote change in the neoliberal
model that excludes informal mercantilism,
freedom of dress, minority groups, international
models of social and urban architecture in favor of
privatized public spaces.
But this is a battle without the support of
academic institutions backing these claims and
avoiding proposals and possible solutions in the
field of the architecture, design and urban social
engineering.

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And now… ?
Course of studies like architecture, design and urbanism have many qualities and
strengths that other professions do not have or have in less quantities, in being both
technical and social at the same time. This combination fosters a more direct approach
to citizenship and helps to propose urban-architectural solutions by acknowledging the
social problems that afflict them.
In the case of Guayaquil, where the "Urban Regeneration" projects have caused urban
fragmentation due to the loss of public spaces by the exclusion of various social groups
considered undesirable, with a vision towards the tourist and commercial development,
the citizen’s rights are traded in for a biased model of progress and social cleansing,
where both the people and the local government forget that “the right to the city
cannot be conceived of as a simple visiting right or as a return to traditional cities. It
can only be formulated as a transformed and renewed right to urban life”. (Lefebvre,
1996)

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And now… ?
So what can be done to change this urban reality? Criticism within
the walls of the academic schools through books or papers is not
enough. The Academic leaders must become executioners
socialized proposals that benefit everyday citizens, especially at the
neighborhood level, because this is the closest to a territorial unit in
the daily life of city dwellers. The joint work between academia
and civil society can be achieved through mechanisms and
initiatives for participation in public spaces, producing a sense of
belonging and empowerment of the community.
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