PROPUESTA URBANA DE MEJORAMIENTO DE ESPACIOS PÚBLICOS EN LA AV. 9 DE OCTUBRE

Abstract

The 9 de Octubre Avenue is for Guayaquil a tourism and business environment, known as the “Boulverd Guayaquileño” due to their extension in both ways. It’s separated for the Centenario Park and meet the leisure, recreation, integration requirements and is a meeting point for the Guayaquileños. However, currently the avenue presents problems related to the transit and the quality of the public space. The chaos caused by vehicular traffic, the lack of safety, the neglect of patrimonial edifications and the insufficient maintenance of their public spaces trigger in a urban image that not meet the basic elements for a good quality of space. The vehicular transit prioritization has made that this avenue lost the focus as identity medium of the city which connect his history with the daily life of the citizens highlighting the most important means of transport, the pedestrian. Through the compilation of information that was obtained with the survey carried out to a certain Guayaquil population; the need to rescue this tourist-commercial point is detected, enhancing the strategies with the recommendations obtained from the interviews carried out with the urban architects. This investigation seeks to improve public spaces to enhance the city, favoring its citizens and tourists, to change the urban image of the area and integrate and connect the identity of the sector economically and physically with its history.