Geography of Fragmentation in the Peri-urban Area of Quito: An Analysis of the New Cumbayá-Tumbaco and San Antonio de Pichincha Centralities

Authors

  • Cristian Serrano Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
  • Gustavo Durán Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612020000100247

Keywords:

urban sprawl, urban periphery, urban geography

Abstract

The socio-spatial configuration of an expanding city has generated a new geography in the urban periphery. Therefore, the city has a more complex functional structure where new centralities are produced. Through a quantitative analysis based on Local Indicators of Spatial Association (lisa) and Geographic Information Systems (gis), centrality and fragmentation indexes were developed, and elements contained in the structure of the urban periphery were analyzed. The central space was identified, which is composed of goods and services distributed in older subcenters and located along a tertiary corridor. In addition, we analyzed territorial and social division by fragmentation in order to study how central space evolves and which characteristics periurban space possesses. Lastly, the analyzed cases allow us to conclude the presence of a new fragmented urban geography in evolution.

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2020-01-02

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Serrano, C., & Durán, G. (2020). Geography of Fragmentation in the Peri-urban Area of Quito: An Analysis of the New Cumbayá-Tumbaco and San Antonio de Pichincha Centralities. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 46(137). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612020000100247

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Vol. 46 No. 137 (2020)

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