SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.6 issue2Comparative analysis between historical drinking water consumption and that of the COVID-19 Pandemic in EcuadorApplication of micro-sustainable and resilient strategies in the peri-urban neighborhood of San Cayetano in the city of Loja author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista Digital Novasinergia

On-line version ISSN 2631-2654

Abstract

SANCHEZ, María; SUCO, Carlos; CAMPOVERDE, Laura  and  VALENCIA, Ricardo. Pedestrian mobility and reception capacity of public space in the commercial and service context, Alborada Guayaquil. Novasinergia [online]. 2023, vol.6, n.2, pp.62-76.  Epub July 14, 2023. ISSN 2631-2654.  https://doi.org/10.37135/ns.01.12.04.

Abstract: Urban resources such as equipment, services, and touristic sites are attracting nuclei of people. In the urban structure, the modes of mobility a location possesses give it a determining role complemented by accessibility and connectivity whose effectiveness is measurable on a smaller territorial scale, such as a sector or a neighborhood. The adverse effects of the SARS-2 COVID-19 pandemic generated the tendency to isolate neighborhoods, such as the case of La Alborada in Guayaquil, with most of its pedestrian accesses blocked, a reality that differs since it is the sector with the most remarkable economic dynamism. This study aims to quantify the variables of pedestrian mobility and the capacity to accommodate people on the central commercial axis using official maps, measurements, and direct observation data collected in public spaces. The results reflect that the linear commercial corridor is segmented into five sections. In the initial and final sections (1, 2, and 5), accessibility is deficient. The intermediate ones (3 and 4) have accessible sidewalks, trees on the sidewalks, and street medians because of public interventions; the deficit indicators are the absence of benches for rest; visual permeability is mild on the ground floor because of non-scenic spaces such as parking lots.

Keywords : Accessibility; public space; mobility; pedestrian.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )