Social conflicts in the configuration of the Quito Metropolitan Area in the period 1992-2010

Main Article Content

Victor Hugo Torres Dávila

Abstract

The text interprets the struggles would social answer in Quito during the process of forming the metropolitan
district between 1992-2010, it highlights the heterónomas relations with the regional power,
cultural connections between social movements and the hegemony of local elites, and disputes over
the urban public spaces. The starting cycle, boom and bust of the capital neighborhood movement is
analyzed, considering the relative weight of the neighborhood in shaping the regional power in the city,
which determines the episodic role of neighborhood organizations and their limitations in the dispute of
the city colonial-modernity.

Article Details

Section
Research