Public space in Quito Ecuador. An innovative tool to employ the territorial development

• Autores: Gierhake, Klaus; Fernández Jardón, Carlos María
• Año de publicación: 2016
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Public space; Social capital; Territorial cohesion; Ecuador
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Misiones

Fil: Gierhake, Klaus. Universidad Justus Liebig. Centro para el Desarrollo Internacional y Investigación Ambiental; Alemania.
Fil: Fernández Jardón, Carlos María. Universidad de Vigo. Departamento de Economía Aplicada; España.
The paper discusses the concept of public space implemented by the Quito Metropolitan District Municipality (MDMQ) 2009-2014 as a source of social capital and territorial cohesion. The findings show the concept is understand more broadly that urbanist tradition. The concept includes a traditional perspective, a dynamic perspective, an environmental perspective and a social perspective. Its introduction in local government was endowed with its own budget programs, ensuring the sustainability of a community policy. Public space is an instrument of sectoral coordination, whose interpretation as a transverse program helps new release to address existing scientific studies. Furthermore, public space is an instrument for ex post project evaluations, to bring the discussion of territorial cohesion to a tangible level of the population and the local administration and to discuss a territorial perspective of social capital.