Lineamientos urbanos para la aplicación de parques públicos del área urbana de la ciudad de Cañar

Abstract

Public spaces must respond to the social needs of their context. The lack of criteria that regulates its design affects these spaces because they are inefficient and scarcely crowded, which causes the failure to fulfill the purpose for which they were built. Therefore, the success of these spaces falls on the previous plan of their design and their adaptation to the environment. The aim of present investigation focuses on analyzing public spaces of the Cañar city, through evaluation parameters whose abbreviation is Mehta to demonstrate the inefficiencies in its operation. Thus, generating guidelines which allow urban intervention is the basis that guarantees functionality and adaptability to the needs of the city. The evaluation started with a theoretical analysis to be applied to three parks of the city such as Parque del Amor, Parque de la Madre, and Quilliganes; they were analyzed under five criteria like inclusiveness, safety, comfort, meaningful activities, and pleasant space. The results obtained revealed that the functionality of the parks is low in all aspects analyzed. Last but not least, based on these results, some solutions were proposed that intend to be integrated into the context and customs of the city; for instance, offer activities to different age groups, encourage the use of public spaces for indigenous communities for cultural promotion, plant trees, and traditional elements of the site, etc.